Dates
- Cover date
- September-October 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Man Who Bribed Death · 7 pages
Newspaper correspondent Robert Avery has a heart condition and only one more day to live. He strikes a bargain with Death himself: Avery kills people before their time and gets to stay alive longer. He travels to dangerous spots like war-torn Korea and Red China where life is cheap and death sudden. His luck runs out as he tries to be smuggled out of a disease-stricken city in a coffin.
- The Terrible Face · 6 pages
Plastic surgeon Emil Toller is jealous of the handsome Jack Parks. Parks is engaged to lovely Nanette whom Toller plans to marry. When Parks is hurt in a car crash, Toller disfigures his face, driving the man to suicide. The dead man’s misshapen face haunts the surgeon who ends up inheriting his terrible features.
- The Witch of Death Swamp · 1 pages
- Claws of the Cat · 6 pages
Grace and Walter Brock murder his rich aunt Annie for her money. They kill her pet cat, too. After burying the old woman, they find the cat’s body gone. Months later, strange things start to happen: Walter is scratched by an invisible animal, and Grace transforms into a murderous feline.
- Diary of the Monster · 6 pages
John Stark is a firebug. He causes a lot of fires until he is caught red-handed. Stark claims his innocence on behalf of being possessed by a monster inside of him. When Stark commits suicide in his cell, the fire monster indeed breaks loose.
- The Thing Beneath the Earth · 1 pages
Reprinted in
Weird (1966), Witches Tales (1969)