Dates
- Cover date
- October-November 1952
- On sale
- July 17, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Well-Traveled! · A Crime SuspenStory · 8 pages
A henpecked husband dis-members his wife after she refuses to let him spend money on toy trains once too often.
- Hate! · A Shock SuspenStory · 7 pages
A man goes along with a plan to set fire to a Jewish couple's home until his mother tells him he's adopted and that his natural parents were Jews.
- Justice · 1 pages
Cursed and reviled, Sheriff Strang's harsh and ruthless form of justice made enemies of him by many of Blind Sam's citizens. Particularly repugnant was the justice meted out this evening to a young boy.....at the end of a rope. That boy: the Sheriff's own son!
- What Fur?! · A Science-Fiction SuspenStory · 6 pages
Captain Limpfort is hired by a furrier to fly him to a planet in another Solar System in order for the furrier to trap and skin skunks, which he makes into fashion apparel. They soon learn that the planet is inhabited by aliens who skin humans for their pelts!
- Cold Cuts! · A Horror SuspenStory · 7 pages
A man murders his wife and cuts up her body in the tub to store in the meat locker. His plans to dispose of the remains are continually frustrated until his friend invites him for dinner, and, after he's taken a bite, reveals to him that he borrowed the meat from the locker.
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1992), EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (2006), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Lives! (1972), EC Classics (1985)