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Title: "A World Gone Mad"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Ed Wilson [average man]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Creston Gardens, 1950s
Reprinted In: Fear#26
Synopsis: Ed comes home to find a stranger in both his house and the house across the street. He thinks he's in an alternate world but it turns out the neighborhood kids rearranged all the door numbers - it's Halloween.
"Bedlam"
"When the Time Comes"

Title: "The Hex"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Others: Frank and Julia Hubbard
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: America
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#13
Synopsis: Frank removes the hex symbols on the farmhouse he and his wife move into, and they are immediately plagued by misfortune; Frank refuses to give in, disbelieving in the hex; things finally turn around, but only because Julia paints a new hex.
"The Voice in the Shell"
"Menace of the Little Men"
"Those in a Trance"
"The Invaders"

Title: "None Are So Blind!"
Story:
Art: Al Williamson
Heroes: Guy Farr [explorer]
Others: Giant people, Clark [Guy's ally]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s, Martinique, Africa
Synopsis: Guy has heard of a "Valley of Giants" on Martinique and brings Clark with him to find it. They do find a tribe there but they aren't giants. The two men don't realize because they drank the local water they became giants and the water will wear off before they return home. Thus the valley remains a secret.

Title: "The Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Henri Berney [inmate at Devil's Island, dies]
Others: Louis [Henri's cellmate], Inspector Monte [Devil's Island police], Ni-Kiyo [native medicine man on Devil's Island]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Devil's Island
Reprinted In: Strange Tales#176
Synopsis: Henri is to be hanged on a Monday, but escapes his cell, and has Ni-Kiyo give him a potion to remove all the Mondays of his life, so his hanging date will never come to him. However, Henri forgot his own birthday was also a Monday.
"Effigy"
"Mr. Mason's Strange Problem"
"We the Jury"
"Voice From Nowhere"
"Night of March 5th"

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Title: "Murder at Midnight!"
Story: Hank Chapman
Art:
Heroes: Willie Trent [gravedigger]
Villains: Mary Burns, Helen Hart, Flo Fenner [dead women]
Others: "Ghosty" Green [former gravedigger]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Sycamore Cemetery, September 4, 1946
Synopsis: Willie gets a job at the cemetery, ignoring stories of the ghosts rising at midnight. Willie rejects Flo, causing her to drive her car off a bridge. When the ghosts rise at midnight Flo and other women driven to death by Willie rise up and drag him beneath the ground with them.

Title: "The Brain"
Story:
Art: Russ Heath
Villains: The Brain [Otto Von Schmittsder, Nazi scientist], Larry [soldier, Brain's thrall, dies]
Others: Fritz [Brain's assistant], Larry's friend [soldier]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Schmittsder's castle, Germany
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#11; Curse of the Weird#1
Synopsis: After being executed for war crimes, Schmittsder's brain is preserved by Fritz, and enthralls Larry, using him to further his dreams of world conquest; when Larry's friend tries to stop him, Larry grapples with himself, and shoots himself in the head.
Notes: Returns in Adventure Into Terror#6

Title: "Forbidden Drink"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Philip Sanderson [aged actor]
Villains: Satan
Others: Rosalie Thorton [actress]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Dracula#4
Synopsis: Sanderson refuses to stop playing romantic leads in plays, even though he looks old enough to be Rosalie's great-grandfather, and audiences heckle his performances. He proposes to Rosalie, but she laughs it off. In desperation, he claims he would give his soul for youth. A man then appears and gives him water from the fountain of youth. Philip takes it, and becomes a handsome young man again. He immediately sets off to find Rosalie, and proposes again-- but once more, she laughs. The water is continuing to regress Philip, and is now only a young boy. As he scampers out of Rosalie's house in his over-sized clothes, the man who gave him the water appears-- the Devil himself, come to collect his soul.

Title: "The Torture Room"
Story:
Art: Don Rico
Heroes: "Professor" [internee]
Villains: Siegfried Mauller [commandant, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Beydorf concentration camp, World War 2
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#11
Synopsis: The Professor engineers a plan for revenge on Mauller by shutting him inside the torture room. Mauller is so terrified at what the internees will do to him he dies of a heart attack.
"Vampire Brats"
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#11

Title: "The Hands of Murder"
Story:
Art: Mike Sekowsky
Heroes: Dr. Frank Philips [physician]
Villains: Janet Marshal [ghostly sister]
Others: Trudy Marshal [haunted woman, dies], Dr. George, Mrs. Marshal [Janet and Trudy's mother]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Trudy thinks her dead sister Janet's hands are around her throat. Philips takes x-rays to reassure her and relates to his associate Dr. George how Janet suffocated in a closet, blaming Trudy. He shows the x-rays to Trudy, but she jumps out a window to her death; to his horror, Philips sees a hand around Trudy's throat on the x-ray.

Title: "The Return Of the Brain"
Story:
Art: Russ Heath
Heroes: Steve Manners [FBI agent, Gilda's lover]
Villains: The Brain [from #4]
Others: Larry and his friend [flashback to #4], Gilda Spears [scientist, Brain's thrall]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Germany, America
Reprinted In: Curse of the Weird#3; Giant-Size Werewolf By Night#4
Synopsis: The Brain journeys to America, enthralls Gilda Spears, uses her to denounce other scientists as Commies; when Steve Manners realizes something is wrong, he attacks the Brain, who is forced to flee.

Title: "You Can't Escape"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Vampire
Others: unnamed target
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Dracula#4
Synopsis: A vampire who hates a man who didn't help him sets about inserting his story into a comic book for the man to read, then attacks him as he is reading.
Notes: Rip-off of Frederic Brown's "Don't Look Behind You" [1947].

"The Girl Who Couldn't Die"
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Chillers#1
"The Dark Room!"
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#17

Title: "Where Monsters Dwell"
Story:
Art: Basil Wolverton
Heroes: Reese [editor of Benton Dispatch]
Villains: Dr. Leon Korber [scientist, dies], alien creatures
Others: scientists
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: an alien dimension
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#1; Curse of the Weird#3
Synopsis: Korber sends his enemies to an alien dimension, but one, Reese, fights back and returns, sending Korber through to be slain by the monsters there, but Reese cannot decide whether to risk saving the others he left behind.

Title: "The Thing That Grew!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Joshua Borglum [scientist, dies]
Villains: Borglum's protoplasm [dies]
Others: Blakey [Borglum's assistant]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Borglum's lab
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#1
Synopsis: Borglum creates in his lab a creature of protoplasm that feeds on blood; as it feeds, it grows larger and larger, until it starts searching for prey; Borglum finally destroys it by leading it out to sea with him, where both are destroyed by the waves.

Title: "Going...Down!"
Story:
Art: Joe Maneely
Heroes: Harry [elevator man]
Villains: Mr. Macaw [black magic practitioner, dies]
Others: Mr. Daniels [hotel manager]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#2
Synopsis: Harry wonders where Mr. Macaw goes when he takes his elevator rides. Macaw takes Harry with him as the elevator passes further and further down until they find themselves in a nightmarish Hell where the guilty are tormented. Harry wakes up to learn it was all a dream, but hears Mr. Macaw had been practicing witchcraft in his apartment, only to die in a fire.

Title: "The Two Who Were Alone!"
Story:
Art: Allen Bellman
Heroes: A man [dies]
Villains: A mad killer
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: A town is in a panic over a mad killer. A man accompanies a lone woman to protect her, but she turns out to be the killer in disguise and murders him.
"Moon Madness"
"Joe"
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#5

Title: "The Dark Dungeon"
Story: Hank Chapman
Art: Ogden Whitney
Villains: Jerome Habersham [heir, dies]
Others: Horatio Habersham [Jerome's wealthy uncle, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Jerome tires of caring for his uncle and wants him dead. He makes his uncle trip down the stairs, but he survives. Next, he locks Horatio in with his attack dogs, who kill him. Suddenly, a Horatio's ghost comes to Habersham Hall and subjects Jerome to the dogs' appetites; Jerome dies and is forced to serve his uncle's ghost as he did him in life.

Title: "Second Floor Rear!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: An old landlady [dies]
Villains: Mr. Vesi and his friends [hairy monsters]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Mr. Vesi's landlady wonders about the packages he brings to his room and discovers he's a monster and has brought along his monster friends. She starts a fire to try and fight off the monsters, but the flames force her to the building's roof, where Mr. Vesi throws her off.

Title: "Off With His Head"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Marcel [state executioner, dies]
Villains: Death
Genre: Horror
Setting: Revolution-era France
Synopsis: Marcel is tortured by nightmares where he loses his head. Death visits him and makes the nightmare come true, claiming Marcel's head.

Title: "Ghouls Rush In"
Story:
Art: Dick Ayers
Heroes: John Magnus [grave robber]
Villains: Rats
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Magnus robs graves for the riches of the dead, but hates rats sometimes burrow into a coffin before he can reach it. After a wealthy woman dies he goes to dig her up as soon as he can, only to find the rats in the process of dragging her body below ground. He chases the rats but is pinned down when the soil collapses around him; somehow, he transforms into a rat and continues to rob from the dead.

Title: "Talking Corpse"
Story:
Art: Joe Sinnott
Villains: Madam Zorina [false seancer], ghost of Beatrice Travers
Others: Mr. Travers [client, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Zorina uses trickery to cheat Travers out of his money, making him think she summoned his sister's spirit. When he discovers the plot Zorina kills him, but then the false mask she made of Beatrice comes to life and grows tentacles to strangle Zorina to death.

Title: "What Walter Saw"
Story:
Art: Edwin Goldfarb
Heroes: Walter [sidewalk telescope renter]
Villains: Alien invaders
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Walter gets a more powerful telescope to help him compete with others, but he and his customers go mad when they see the Earth is surrounded by aliens.

"The Old Hag"

Title: "The Snake!"
Story:
Art: Mort Meskin
Heroes: Denton [sailor]
Villains: A snake
Others: Sailors [Jed Halloway, Green]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s South Seas island
Synopsis: Denton tells tall tales about a snakeskin in his duffel bag. To prove his tale he sneaks off the ship at night and catches a snake on an island, killing it over a fire for the skin. A second snake appears and menaces him, even crushing the post where his boat is tied. He finally passes out and the crew retrieves him, but aboard ship he discovers the second snake inside his duffel.

Title: "Ed's Young Wife"
Story: Brown
Art: David Gantz
Villains: Jim [contractor]
Others: Ed and Helen Jenkins [couple]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#19
Synopsis: Jim agrees to kill Ed so he and Helen can be together and sabotages Ed's car-- only for Helen to take it out for a drive.

Title: "Under the Knife!"
Story:
Art: Tony DiPreta
Heroes: Matt Henry [patient, former soldier]
Villains: Dr. Peel [physician], the Furies [Sirens]
Others: Jake [dead soldier], Zoe [ferrywoman], Annie [nurse], Dr. Luft [physician]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA; Isle of Cowardly Warriors
Reprinted In: Creatures on the Loose#18
Synopsis: Matt is placed under anesthetic and finds himself in a boat with Zoe, being pursued by a hunter. Matt sees the dead beckoning to him; he finally comes to find Dr. Peel and Annie resemble Zoe and the hunter; as he passes out again, his life may be in jeopardy.

Title: "Island of Horror"
Story:
Art: Joe Sinnott
Heroes: Nick Allen [reporter]
Villains: Ronstedt [archaeologist turned into monster]
Others: Jeannie [typist]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA; Axteptl, near Solomon Islands
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#17
Synopsis: Allen loves grisly stories; he visits a sailor at the docks who promises to explain a recent set of disappearances. He relates how an expedition to Axteptl found a cursed city and the archaeologist, Ronstedt, was turned into a flesh-eating monster. Allen doubts the story, but the sailor reveals himself as Ronstedt and the missing people's skeletons are in his cabin.

Title: "Dead Man's Escape!"
Story:
Art: Joe Maneely
Villains: Tony Paris [convict, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Dry Tortugas, prison island
Reprinted In: Fear#9
Synopsis: Paris hopes to escape Dry Tortugas by masquerading a corpse, as corpses are thrown into the ocean; however, he is thrown down a well instead, and an octopus kills him.

Title: "He Who Laughs Last, Gets...The Horselaugh"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Joe Rich [back of horse costume, dies]
Others: Eddie Miller [front of horse costume, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#16
Synopsis: Joe is tired of being the horse's rear, and kills Eddie. Joe is then found trampled to death...while the horse costume hangs nearby.

Title: "Horror in the Graveyard"
Story:
Art: Bernie Krigstein
Villains: Peter Morrison, the Unholy Three [zombies], Professor Tomkins, Howard, Tom Prentice [zombies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Grisdale Cemetary
Synopsis: To escape the Unholy Three, Morrison promises them three victims; he brings Tomkins, Howard and Prentice to them, but then those three become zombies-- and they won't let him go.

Title: "The 13th Floor"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Bart Creel [building owner, dies]
Villains: Ghouls
Genre: Horror
Setting: An office building
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#11; Dead of Night #5
Synopsis: Creel is forced to rent his 13th floor to a band of ghouls, even though the building doesn't have one; he becomes curious as to where they go, but they claim only a ghoul can get to the 13th floor; he forces one to bring him, and he intends to rent the entire floor out, but once the ghoul steps off the floor, Creel is materialized in-between solid floors.

"The Little Pests"
Reprinted In: Uncanny Tales from the Grave#5
"The Man Who Cried Ghost"
"The Hangman's Noose"

Title: "Don't Try to Outsmart the Devil!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Carmine Infantino
Villains: Mr. Murdock [wealthy man], Satan
Others: Igor [a mystic], Carl [Murdock's co-worker, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Vampire Tales#3
Synopsis: Murdock has immense wealth but fears death, wishing he could live forever. Turning to Igor's black magic, Murdock has him conjure up Satan himself. Murdock offers Satan his soul in exchange for living forever, but Satan replies he already has Murdock's soul. He describes how Murdock killed his co-worker to steal his invention and later murdered a man who would have revealed the bridge Murdock worked on was unsafe; these two murders and the deaths of all the people who perished when the bridge collapsed are on Murdock's head. Murdock offers to give Satan his soul immediately, rather than waiting for him to die. Satan agrees and puts Murdock in a coffin; true to his word, Murdock goes on living forever, the heart in his chest still beating long after his body has decayed.

Title: "The Hands"
Story:
Art: Gene Colan
Heroes: Gary [lobster-man]
Others: Lobster-men
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Monsters Unleashed#4
Synopsis: Gary's lobster-like hands make him an outcast, but he is told he will be fine after he turns 25. He kills a man while stealing jewels to pay for an operation to get him human hands, but when he turns 25 he turns into a giant Lobster, only with human hands. Now he is an outcast amongst his fellow Lobster-people.

"The Little People"
Reprinted In: Beware#6
"Hex!"
Reprinted In: Beware#6

Title: "He Kept Him in Stitches!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Ivan Pushkin [doctor]
Villains: the Commissar [dies]
Others: Anna Pushkin [Ivan's wife]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Berlin
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#23
Synopsis: Pushkin is forced to operate on the cruel Commissar if he wishes him and his wife to live; he saves the Commissar's wife, but seals a knife inside of him near his heart to kill him when he moves.
Notes: Country's name changed to Bodavia in reprint
"The Woman Who Wasn't"
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#3
"Jaws of Death"
"The Tarantula"
"The Lion's Mouth

Title: "One Must Die!"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Jim, Millie [lovers], Dr. Zorg [Millie's husband, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Dr. Zorg's labyrinth beneath his lab
Reprinted In: Dead of Night #5
Synopsis: Zorg believes any animal will kill its own mate to save its life; after Millie and Jim plant a bomb in his lab, he fuses the two of them together, and places them in a lion and hyena den; the escape route is too small for them both to fit through; one must kill the other with an axe to escape, and while Zorg is killed when the bomb goes off, Jim and Millie turn on each other to save themselves.

"The Executioner"
Reprinted In: Monster of Frankenstein#7

Title: "My Name is Death"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Joe Maneely
Villains: Iron Maiden [murder device], governor
Others: Sigmund Graasp [inventor of Iron Maiden, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Spain
Reprinted In: Kull the Destroyer#14
Synopsis: Graasp invents the iron maiden and presents it to a governor, but he ultimately meets his fate in the iron maiden's embrace.
"Men With a Net"
"It Can't Be Done"

Title: "They Don't Complain"
Story:
Art: Sam Kweskin
Others: Higgenbotham [old man, dies], doctors, nurses
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s hospital
Reprinted In: Monster of Frankenstein#14
Synopsis: Higgenbotham is brought into an operating room where, to his horror, the doctors begin to cut him open. Higgenbotham is unaware he's already a corpse.

"Red as a Lobster"
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#5

Title: "I Die Too Often"
Story: Carl Wessler
Art: Gil Kane
Heroes: Tom Gordon [murderer, dies repeatedly]
Others: Paul Marsh [prison warden], Hutch [prison barber], Haggerty [prison guard]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s prison
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#5
Synopsis: Tom Gordon is executed over and over again; he cannot tell when he is being killed and when he is sleeping. When he finally seems to die for good, his ghost is brought up to be executed all over again; his punishment is eternal.
"Casper's Boss"
"The Vandals"

Title: "The Withered Hand"
Story:
Art: Paul Reinman
Villains: John Clay [thief]
Others: high lama [dies], other monks
Genre: Horror
Setting: Tibet; 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#1
Synopsis: In Tibet, Clay is shown a priceless ruby, the "Soul of a Sinner", which the lama claims contains a man's soul. Clay kills the lama, who vows when his hand turns to ash, he will come for him. He brings the ruby (and the lama's hand) back to America, where he sells it for 1 million dollars. But when he cheats on his wife, she throws the lama's hand into the fireplace, and the lama's spirit throttles John. He awakens inside of the ruby, his soul, now in the possession of the monks.

"The Girl Who Couldn't Die"
Reprinted In: Journey Into Mystery#2
"The Strange Children"
Reprinted In: Monsters Unleashed#6
"The Maggots"
Reprinted In: Monsters Unleashed#6
"Meet the Bride"

Title: "We Can Hardly Wait"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Worms
Others: John, his brother, their mother, their father [deceased]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Unseen voices await the end of a funeral service -- so they can begin to devour the corpse.
"Proof Positive"
"The Dead Duke"
"Tommy Has a Teddy Bear"
"Look out for Lakoonda!"

Title: "Possessed!"
Story:
Art: Gene Colan
Heroes: Lise [possessed woman]
Villains: Don Camillo [Lise's uncle], Don Andrea [Lise's suitor, dies]
Others: Mario [Lise's true love, dies], a witch
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s Italy
Synopsis: Lise and Mario are in love, but Don Camillo wants his niece to marry Don Andrea. Camillo summons Andrea to see the two of them together and Andrea fights Mario, killing him in a duel. Lise is distraught by Mario's death and is possessed by an evil spirit. At times, Lise is passionately in love with Don Andrea, but in a moment's notice flies into a murderous rage. The Dons hire a witch to drive out the evil spirit. Don Andrea thinks he and Lise will now be together, but Lise murders him; the evil spirit was in love with Don Andrea and was keeping her from killing him sooner. Now, she turns on her uncle...

Title: "Doctor Molnar's Corpse!"
Story:
Art: Dick Ayers
Villains: Dr. Molnar [mad doctor, dies], Quadro [hunchback assistant, dies], a vampire
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s Europe
Synopsis: Quadro brings corpses to Dr. Molnar for his experiments. Molnar hopes to perfect a formula which can regenerate the dead, but he needs blood to complete his experiment. Molnar uses Quadro as his unwilling donor, transferring Quadro's blood into the corpse until Quadro is dead. Sure enough, the corpse comes back to lfie. Unfortunately for Molnar, Quadro brought him a vampire and the vampire leaps on Molnar's throat.
"Don't Double-Cross a Witch!"
"Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones"
"Hair I Go Again"

Title: "Tennis Anyone?"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Burgess Harlow [tennis player, dies]
Villains: Dick Satin [tennis player]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#29
Synopsis: Intrigued at Satin's prowess with a single racket, Harlow investigates it, wanting to know what the strings are made of. He wakes up on an operating table, his chest open, as Satin explains he doesn't use catgut...

Title: "The Wax Men"
Story:
Art: Joe Sinnot
Villains: Helen Welch [dies]
Others: Jonathan Welch [man with wax family, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#29
Synopsis: Helen marries Jonathan, but is annoyed by his insistance his wax "family" is alive. She starts a fire to destroy them, but is trapped inside with Jonathan...as he melts with his family.
"Juggernaut"
"The Body Snatchers"
"The Last Man"

Title: "A Very Grave Matter!"
Story:
Art: Bill Benulis
Heroes: Ignatius Zekel [coffin maker, dies]
Villains: Ghosts
Others: Mrs. Koster [widow]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Zekel makes cheap coffins using scrap materials then leaves town when his customers get wise. He finally decides to invest his money in a house, but hates the high prices. One man offers him a deal on a building made of stone and Zekel takes it, only to find it haunted by ghosts. It turns out the man built it out of tombstones.

Title: "The Terrible Trophy"
Story:
Art: Matt Fox
Heroes: Rocky Martin [hunter, dies]
Villains: Tattoo collector
Others: John [hunting club member], Mike [hunting club president], Kunga tribe [Africans]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA, Africa
Synopsis: Rocky bores his local hunting club with tales of his exploits hunting heads and repeating the tale of how the Kungas tattooed a gorilla face to his chest. The club hires a new member who indulges Rocky, then invites him to his house to show him a Gorillion head; Rocky asks for the rare creature and the man agrees to an exchange: he collects tattoos...

Title: "The Corpses Come Back!"
Story:
Art: Gene Colan
Heroes: Three brothers
Villains: Mr. Torgan [cemetary caretaker, dies]
Others: John and Martha [dead parents of the brothers]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Darkville, Sleepy Haven Cemetery
Synopsis: The brothers are outraged to see the poor shape their parents' graves at Sleepy Haven are kept in, but Torgan informs them they should have read the fine print in their contract. Their parents rise from their grave as ghosts and force Torgan to sign a contract promising to fix the cemetery. Torgan does all of this, but after the improvements are made the couple kill him; he didn't read their fine print.

Title: "The Speed-Up!"
Story:
Art: Tony DiPreta
Heroes: Harry, Tom, Luke [comic book artists]
Villains: "Whiz" [fast comic book artist]
Others: Ben Clay [comic book editor]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Harry, Tom and Luke are frustrated at the "Whiz," who can turn out seemingly impossible numbers of pages each day while they can't even get two done. They break into his home and force him to reveal his methods; he tricks the trio into a stock then, whip in hand, forces them and other imprisoned comic book artists to draw his pages for him.

Title: "Snakes Alive"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Uncle Markov [man with snakes for fingers]
Others: Phyllis, Adam and Peter Blackton [Markov's niece and nephews, all die], Police officers [Mike, Sgt. Morgan]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Members of the Blackton family all die from snake bites; Uncle Markov seems suspicious, but has no weapons concealed on him. Finally, the last remaining relative tricks Markov and captures him, then exposes his secret to the police: Markov has poisonous snakes for fingers! ...Wait, what?

Title: "Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble"
Story:
Art: C.A. Winter
Villains: Macbeth [dies], three Witches
Others: Banquo [dies], Lady Macbeth, Macduff [son of a witch]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Scotland
Reprinted In: Dracula Lives#3
Synopsis: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, only Macduff is revealed to be the son of one of the witches rather than being born through a c-section. "The Screaming Man"
"The Big Story"
"Pep Talk"

Title: "The Men in the Morgue"
Story:
Art: Gene Colan
Villains: Red and Joe [bank robbers, die]
Others: Olaf [morgue attendant], his brother [dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: America
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#23
Synopsis: Red and Joe kill a man in front of the morgue while escaping during a robbery; they decide to hide in the morgue by threatening its caretaker, but he kills them-- because the man they killed was his brother.
"The Smasher"
"Half-Man"
"Cry Werewolf"

Title: "Insane"
Story:
Art: Al Eadeh
Heroes: Phil Jones [unjustly accused man]
Others: Bess Jones [Phil's wife]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Phi is arrested and tried as the "vampire killer" and despite his professed innocence is convicted and sent to be executed. On the verge of his execution the real killer is found and Phil is set free, but his mind has snapped and he becomes a killer.

Reprinted In: Tales of the Zombie#2

Title: "The Faceless Ones"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: three astronauts
Villains: Faceless Ones [demons], the Devil
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Hades
Reprinted In: Fear#25
Synopsis: Three astronauts find themselves in another world, and meet its inhabitants-- but this world isn't a planet, it's Hell itself.

Title: "The Vampire-Man"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Tom Malverne [hunchback, Jack the Ripper, dies], vampires
Others: victims of Jack the Ripper
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1888, London, England
Reprinted In: Dracula Lives#3
Synopsis: Malverne wants to get back at people who called him ugly, and tries to get vampires to make him one of them. They agree, but only if he drinks human blood before the end of the year. Tom kills many women, but cannot drink their blood; the vampires kill him, and his murders are believed to be those of Jack the Ripper.
"Man Who Walked the Plank"

Title: "Horrible House"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Mr. Belding [wealthy man, dies]
Villains: Ghouls
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Belding fears atomic war and hates other people so he builds a home in a remote location. However, the house was built on a marsh and it sinks below ground, where Belding is met by Ghouls; soon he suffocates as the house disappears beneath the earth.

Title: "Scream in the Night!"
Story:
Art: Vince Colletta
Heroes: Kent [writer]
Villains: Jane [Kent's wife], Phil [Kent's editor], Dr. Enright [Kent's doctor]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#20
Synopsis: Kent can't make anyone believe in his encounter with robed druids dancing around a fire, because the people closest to him are the druids.
"Don't Nod"
"Man in the Shadows"

Title: "Dear Valentine!"
Story:
Art: Al Hartley
Heroes: Mimi Terris [deceitful wife]
Villains: Frank Terris [Mimi's husband, dies]
Others: Ed Kelty [Mimi's beau, dies], Peters [chauffer], Jacqueline [maid]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Mimi has secret rendezvous with Ed in a cemetary and wish they could be rid of Frank. Ed decides to murder Frank to set Mimi free and kills him the day before Valentine's Day. Mimi receives a human heart in a package identifying it as the heart of the man she loves, but then she finds Ed dead, with his heart removed. Frank's ghost appears, identifying himself as Ed's killer and prepares to do the same to Mimi.

"Crazy, Man"
"Slave Ship"
"It Happened in the Morgue"

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Title: "The Eyes!"
Story:
Art: Werner Roth
Heroes: John [unemployed man, dies]
Villains: Gregg Stanton [banker, multiple eyes], multi-eyed men
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#15
Synopsis: John drops a dime in a bar and a patron can tell its beneath his shoe, even though his back is turned. John remarks "you must have eyes in the back of your head" and the man turns on him with his friends. John runs to his friend Gregg, only to have Gregg turn on him too - Gregg is one of them, with eyes in the back of his head.
"The Iron Door"
"The Thing in the Bottle"
"When a World Goes Mad!"

Title: "The Thing That Waited!"
Story: Joe Maneely
Art: Joe Maneely
Heroes: A US pilot [dies]
Villains: Trisis aliens [become Josef Stalin and Soviets]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s Korea
Synopsis: A pilot crashes and his spirit sees aliens from Trisis arriving on Earth; the assume the forms of Stalin and Soviet soldiers to invade the Earth.

Title: "The Empty City!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Johnny Hart [Graphic News reporter]
Villains: Sorn and other aliens of Planet 65 [one as Bill Gentry]
Genre: Science Fiction, Horror
Setting: Pine City, Catskills; New York
Synopsis: Johnny finds the town of Pine City deserted and discover aliens from Planet 65 have begun replacing the population. He returns to New York and tells his editor, Gentry, but Gentry has already been replaced and sends word for Johnny to be replaced as well.

Title: "Nothing Can Stop Me"
Story:
Art: Bill Walton
Villains: Carl [becomes gorilla, dies]
Others: Rita Thornton, Professor Thornton
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Carl is tired of being small and scrawny so he takes Professor Thornton's gorilla formula to impress Rita; however he begins to transform into a gorilla and has to be shot by the professor.

Title: "The Quiet Men"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Goro [Martian pilot]
Others: Crew of the Ghost Ship
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Mars
Synopsis: Martians investigate a ghostly Earth plane which appears in space; aboard they discover a log and learn the plane dropped a bomb which wiped out all life on Earth; the crew's souls are bound to the plane for an eternity of wandering.

Title: "A Shriek in the Night!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: A blond man
Villains: Invaders from below the surface
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: A man is awakened at night and brought underground where he learns a hidden race plan to invade the surface; his only hope to live is to become their slave and bring another person to them, thereby increasing the ranks of their slaves.

Title: "There Was Worse Than Death in the Village Graveyard"
Story:
Art: Russ Heath
Heroes: Carl Dekker
Villains: female ghost
Genre: Horror
Setting: Haunted house
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Chillers#1
Synopsis: Dekker purchases a house with a graveyard on its property and plans to have the graveyard destroyed, but a ghost appears to him and convinces him to halt the destruction. In love with the ghost, he asks how he can bring her to life, and she tells him to kiss her. He does, and is immediately killed, joining her in eternal life as yet another grave outside the house is filled. "The Face of Death"
"The Man Who Lost His Head"
"The Passenger"
"The Miser"

Title: "Don't Bury Me Deep!"
Story:
Art: Bill Everett
Villains: Charles Beecher [undertaker]
Others: John Macomber [factory owner, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s Macombersville
Synopsis: Beecher can't stand how the Macomber family runs Macombersville with their casket factory and rejoices when he hears John Macomber has died. While tending to Macomber's body, Beecher is shocked to find the man still alive; he seals him in his casket until he finally dies, but then accidentally falls in the casket and is shut inside. Although the pallbearers can tell someone inside is alive and wants out, they think it's Macomber and want him dead as much as Beecher did; Beecher is buried alive in Macomber's grave.

Title: "Sticks and Stones"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Paul Medford [professional actor and cad]
Others: Nan Baxter [actress]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Paul uses his charm to woo women, but quickly gives them up, never caring because "stick and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me." He wins over Nan by giving her a brooch with her name on it, but quickly spurns her. After one of Paul's conquests jumps from a ledge cursing him, crowds turn on Paul and throw sticks and stones at him. He runs to Nan for help, but she brands his forehead with the brooch, proving names can hurt him.

Title: "The Ghoul!"
Story:
Art: Vic Carrabotta
Heroes: Bosco Channey [murderer, dies]
Villains: ghoul
Others: policemen
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#11
Synopsis: Channey is accused by the police of being a ghoul, but escapes from them and asks an old man to hide him-- but the old man is the ghoul.

Title: "The Killers"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Steve Danning, Mary Crosby [teenagers]
Villains: The Killers [bat-creatures]
Others: sea-creatures
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Monsters Unleashed#4
Synopsis: Sea-creatures appear in a lake, and the military decides to poison the waters to kill them-- only to discover they were intended to protect mankind from the Killers, who are now free to destroy humanity.
"Too Old To Live"

Title: "The Monster"
Story:
Art: Ed Winiarsky
Villains: Ingoor, other mutants
Others: various townspeople
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales#1 Synopsis: Ingoor is sent to prepare for an invasion from beneath the earth, but all the humans he meets don't believe he's a monster; he decides they should abandon the humans to themselves.
"Lost in the Graveyard"
"Throw Another Coal on the Fire"
"Find the Pin and Pick it Up"
"Missing...One Head"

Title: "The Vampire Maker"
Story:
Art:
Villains: vampires
Others: Dr. Gottfried [scientist, dies], his assistant, synthetic vampire, villagers with torches
Genre: Horror
Setting: Hungary
Reprinted In: Uncanny Tales From the Grave#4
Synopsis: When people learn Gottfried is making a vampire, they break into his castle and slay him, but not before the vampire awakens. They curse Gottfried as a monster, not realizing his vampire feeds upon other vampires, to help mankind.
"Where Dead Men Walk"
"I Died Tomorrow"
"You Devil, You!"
"The Thing That Hatched"

Title: "A Shriek in the Night"
Story: Stan Lee
Art:
Heroes: A hobo [dies]
Villains: A monster woman
Others: A monster killer [dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Beware#4
Synopsis: A hobo sees a beautiful woman chased by a man in the park. He kills the man, but the woman turns into a monster and kills the hobo.
"The Man Who Steals Gravestones"
"Horror on Haunted Hill"
"Forever is a Long Time"
"Man Who Walked On Water"

Title: "Kiss of Death"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Lillian Ashby [scheming wife], a female vampire
Others: John Ashby [writer, becomes vampire]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s, Catskills
Reprinted In: Journey Into Mystery#12
Synopsis: Lillian hates her husband and tries to scare him to death so she can collect his insurance; it doesn't work, and he becomes a vampire after a visit from a female vamp-- then vamps Lillian himself.

"Flying Saucer"
Reprinted In: Supernatural Thrillers#10

"Mind Over Matter"
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Werewolf By Night#2
"Surprise!"
Reprinted In: Uncanny Tales From the Grave#6
"The Old Man's Secret"
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#12

Title: "He Walks With a Ghost!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art:
Villains: Barney Grill [hoodlum, dies], zombies
Others: Sanford Smythe [lawyer]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Hungary
Reprinted In: Dead of Night #2
Synopsis: Grill inherits a fortune in Hungary, and moves to the family mansion there, but is disgusted by the graveyard, and has it dug up; the corpses have revenge by coming to life and crushing him in a steamshovel.

Title: "The Nightmare!"
Story:
Art:
Others: a warlock [doctor] and a witch [patient]
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Setting: Doctor's office
Reprinted In: Dead of Night #2
Synopsis: A patient tells her doctor of her horrible dreams, of a happy home and family; she's so happy when she wakes up to find she's a witch.

Title: "The Men From Mars!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Fred Kida
Heroes: Bill [child] and his father
Others: Martians
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Bill and his father meet a Martian and ask to go to Mars with him to escape the nuclear threat on Earth, but the Martians are themselves trying to escape their war-sticken planet.

Title: "The Gentlemen of the Jury!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Russ Heath
Heroes:
Villains: Nick Rico [gunman], Benedict Boswell [criminal lawyer], Curly Grogan [mob leader, dies], Satan
Others: Gimpy Tuskak [small-time crook, dies], Joe [theater guard], Dolly [actress, Nick's girlfriend]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Dolly introduces Nick to Boswell who helps him get away with his murders in court. Afraid of being tied to Nick forever, Dolly conjures Satan with black magic and promises him Nick's soul. Satan arranges Nick's next trial so the jury are the people he's killed.

Title: "Halfway Home!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Captain Bryan [starship captain]
Others: Dr. Huron [scientist]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: X-33 rocket, Saturn, distant future
Synopsis: The X-33 needs to lose half its weight. Huron proposes a device which will shrink everyone in half, but when he uses it on himself it makes the left side of his body disappear.
"The One Who Was Dead"
"Look Out for the Martians"
"He Kidnapped a Rocket"
"The Hunter"

Title: "The Men From Mars"
Story:
Art: Bill Everett
Heroes: Henry [alien, dies]
Villains: Mary [Henry's wife, alien], Charlie [Henry's neighbour, alien], Dr. Dave Page [Henry's friend, alien], other aliens
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Henry sees people around him as Martians. Visiting Dr. Page, he learns the Martians invaded Earth by assuming human forms and slowly driving humans to extinction; Page has a mirror which shows his true form. Henry fears he's the only real human left, but when he sees himself in the mirror he realizes he's a Martian; he shoots himself in the head.

Title: "Nightmare!"
Story:
Art: Joe Sinnott
Heroes: A man
Villains: Aliens
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: A man dreams of creatures holding him prisoner and threatening his life. He awakens in a hospital, only to find the aliens standing over him.

Title: "A Million Light-Years Away"
Story:
Art: Sam Keswin
Heroes: Ben Jarvis [mechanic]
Others: Helen Jarvis [Ben's wife], Tim Jarvis [Ben's son], Uranians
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Distant future; Earth, Uranus
Synopsis: Ben helps prepare ships to journey into outer space and it makes him resentful of his life on Earth, imagining the challenges of space. He finally gets to accompany a flight to Uranus, but finds the Uranians have allowed machines to take over their jobs, leaving the species slothful. Ben returns to Earth with newfound love for his life.

Title: "Two Times Two!"
Story:
Art: Paul Reinman
Villains: Rroosskkaans [die]
Others: United Planets Organization [Aka, Moonga, Venus, Earth]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Rroosskkaa, 2000 AD
Synopsis: The Rroosskkaans refuse to disarm for the United Planets and instead plot to invade their rivals' worlds. Needing more soldiers in order to occupy, they invent a duplicator ray which can fashion a double of anyone. Unfortunately, they create so many people so quickly the planet falls out of orbit and its inhabitants are flung into space.

Title: "The Mad Mamba!"
Story:
Art: Joe Maneely
Heroes: Lola Britton [spiteful dancer]
Villains: A mamloi, zombies
Others: Jolie Martin [Lola's superior], Senor Garcia [Haitian]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA, Haiti
Synopsis: Lola schemes to win Jolie's fame. On a trip to Haiti, Lola meets an old woman who offers to show her the voodoo dance. Thinking it's the edge she needs against Jolie, Lola agrees; the woman summons forth zombies who force Lola to dance with them until she dies...then keep dancing.

Title: "In the Bag!"
Story:
Art: Doug Wildey
Villains: Joel [farmer]
Others: Carl [Joel's friend, dies], Melissa [Joel's wife]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Joel is carrying a bag of rocks to fix a wall when Carl meets him and thinks he's killed his wife and is disposing of the body. Carl reveals Melissa was cheating on him and Joel angrily kills Carl and stuffs him in the bag. He takes the bag home and kills Melissa, then carries the bodies away in the bag for disposal.
Notes: Rip-off of John Collier's "De Mortuis."

Title: "The Strange Shop!"
Story:
Art: Ed Moline
Villains: Satan [pawn shop owner], various criminals
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Satan runs a pawn shop; when men come to rob him, he claims them for Hell.

Title: "When Worlds Meet"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: Kaaa [Venusian leader], Venusians, Martians
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA and England, the moon
Synopsis: Martians contact the USA and arrange to meet them on the moon; Venusians simultaneously contact the UK and arrange a meeting on the moon at the same time. The Martians and Venusians each distrust Earth and have war fleets standing by. When all of the human astronauts are held up in their rendezvous, the Martian and Venusian envoys mistake each other for humans and attack and kill themselves. The Martian and Venusian fleets destroy Earth in retaliation.

Title: "The Worm Turns"
Story:
Art: Bill Walton
Villains: Joe [henpecked husband, dies]
Others: May [Joe's wife, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Joe is constantly nagged by May, who calls him a worm. After finding where she hides her money Joe kills May by tripping her with a line of twine on the stairs, but after burying her in the cellar worms from her body seem to come and torment him until he accidentally trips on the twine he left for May and is tangled up then devoured by the worms.

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Title: "Witch Hunt"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Sarah [woman suspected of being witch]
Villains: Witch-hunters
Others: Ben [warlock]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Salem, Massachusetts
Reprinted In: Monster of Frankenstein#12
Synopsis: Sarah is suspected of being a witch, but Ben convinces people she is innocent. On their way to being married, Sarah is thrown from the wagon, and Ben decides to get help, by flying there on a tree limb. He knew she was innocent because he was a warlock himself.

"The Last Man on Earth"
Reprinted In: Uncanny Tales From the Grave#7
"Why Won't They Believe Men?
Reprinted In: X-Men#90; Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko
"Journey's End"
Reprinted In: X-Men#91; Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko
"The Icy Fingers of Fear"

Title: "The Terror of Tim Boo Ba"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: Tim Boo Ba [alien dictator, dies]
Others: Two students
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: A microscopic alien world
Reprinted In: Marvel Monster Masterworks; Journey Into Mystery#10; Monster Menace#1; retold in Silver Surfer#4
Synopsis: The mighty dictator Tim Boo Ba is the master of all he surveys, an absolute monarch-- until a single drop of water destroys his microscopic empire.
Notes: Grogoom, in Marvel: Heroes and Legends '96 was drawn to look like Tim Boo Ba.

Title: "I Come From the Black Void"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Xenian ambassador [alien from the Black Void]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Creatures On the Loose#27
Synopsis: A human-like Xenian comes to earth to offer his people's secrets to humanity, and proclaims his identity to a crowded street, only to be completely ignored. Baffled, he leaves earth, not knowing he chose to make his proclamation on April Fool's Day.

Title: "The Man Who Captured Death!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Old scientist
Villains: Death
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Astonishing Tales#21
Synopsis: An old scientist, knowing his death is near, creates a device to capture Death, and prevent him from taking his life. But with Death incapacitated, nothing can die-- including germs, rats, insects, and the infirm. Finally, the old man realizes his mistake, and allows Death to perform his task.

Title: "The Genie Lives"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Davey and his fellow teenagers
Others: A genie
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Journey into Mystery#12
Synopsis: Davey summons up a genie and has it use its powers to fly him around the Earth, make the universe vanish, and make him grow in size, but then wishes he had never summoned him-- resulting in the entire incident cycling over again.

"The Spirit of Swami River"
Reprinted In: X-Men#86

Title: "No Sign of Life"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: two explorers [Ronn named]
Others: living planets
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: an unnamed galaxy in the future
Reprinted In: Curse of the Weird#2; Creatures On The Loose#28; Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko
Synopsis: Two explorers search every planet in a galaxy for life, but find none-- because the life-forms are the planets themselves.

Title: "Those Who Change"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Others: old professor, two scientists
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960s USA; Prehistoric era
Reprinted In: Fantasy Masterpieces#1; Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko
Synopsis: Two scientists show the professor how they can send a cube back in time, but they are unable to bring it back. The professor refuses to aid them, saying playing with time is potentially catastrophic. They ignore him, and continue, finally becoming able to return the cube. They decide to send it back with a camera to prehistoric times, and as it arrives, it strikes down a reptile who was about to become the first creature to stand upright. The cube returns, and the two scientists-- now giant reptiles-- are pleased to see history has not been altered.

"Mister Universe"
Reprinted In: X-Men#87
"The Mark of the Toad"
"Man on a Tightrope"

Title: "Ice-Monster Cometh"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: Hugo Bogg [jewel thief], Ice-Monster [furry monster]
Others: unnamed inspector [dies BTS]
Genre: Monster
Setting: European village
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Man-Thing#1
Synopsis: Hugo Bogg is forced to leave the village he hide his stolen jewels in until the local inspector dies, but finds too many people living where he buried them; he dresses up as "the Ice-Monster" to scare them away, but the Ice-Monster is real, comes, and carries him off, thinking it had found one of its own kind.

"Where Walks the Ghost"
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#16; Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee
"The Secret of the Universe"
Reprinted In: Supernatural Thrillers#9
"For the Rest of Your Life"
Reprinted In: X-Men#89
"In Human Form"

Title: "The Little Gypsy Tea Room"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: Bruno [burglar]
Others: gypsy, police
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Supernatural Thrillers#8
Synopsis: Bruno forces a gypsy to hide him in her tea room. She agrees, and hides him inside her crystal ball-- forever.

"At the Stroke of Midnight"
"Great Zeus"
"The Ultimate Weapon"

Title: "The Man In The Sky"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Tad Carter [young mutant]
Others: Tobias Messenger [mutant telepath, named in X-Men: Hidden Years#17]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: X-Men Rarities; Marvel Age#104; Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko; Marvel Milestone: Dragon Lord/Speedball/Man in the Sky
Synopsis: When Carter develops mutant abilities, others turn on him, but he is saved by Messenger, who brings to a safe place until mankind is ready.
Notes: Carter and Messenger return in X-Men: Hidden Years#17

Title: "What Happened in the Wax Museum?"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: robber
Others: Herr Wagner [founder of wax museum]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: wax museum, European village
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales#20
Synopsis: A thief encounters Wagner in the wax museum when his statue comes to life to stop him long enough for the police to catch up.

"Beware of the Giants"
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales#21
"Footsteps at Midnight"
"Ozarr the Mighty"

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Title: "I am the Amazing Dr. Droom!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
Heroes: Dr. Anthony Droom [doctor, becomes mystic hero]
Villains: Gorlion [half-lion, half-gorilla]
Others: the Lama [dies], the Lama's aide
Genre: Fantasy, Super-Hero
Setting: Tibet
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales #19; Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby
Synopsis: Dr. Droom goes to Tibet when he learns the Lama needs a doctor; he overcomes burning coals and the Gorlion to reach him, then learns he is to be the Lama's successor in combating evil. He accepts, and sets out to begin his mission.
Notes: Weird Wonder Tales #19 reprints as "I am Dr. Druid"; Lama later retconned into the Ancient One in Avengers Spotlight #37

Title: "I Led the Strange Search For Manoo!"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Billy Jones [student]
Villains: alien invader
Others: Manoo [benevolent alien], Mr. Miller [Billy's boss]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960s USA
Synopsis: Billy is shunned for being poor; when he finds an alien pursuing the convict Manoo he agrees to help, but soon learns Manoo is the good guy, and helps him defeat the other alien. In gratitude, Manoo leaves him with a fortune which he uses to purchase Farnsworh College so he can be a snob back at those who snobbed him in school.

"Rocky's Last Ride"

Title: "Dr. Droom Meets Zamu"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
Heroes: Dr. Droom
Villains: Zamu [alien from Saturn]
Genre: Science Fiction, Super-Hero
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales#20
Synopsis: Zamu astounds people with his seeming-magical powers as he runs for governor; Dr. Droom exposes him as an invader from Saturn and defeats him.
Notes: Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales #20 as "Behold the Power of Zamu."

Title: "We Were Trapped in the Twilight World"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Paul Harper [scientist], Cathy/Carol [his girlfriend who the narrator can't recall the name of]
Villains: neanderthals, giant lizards, pterodactyl, tyrannosaurus rex, sabretooth tiger, apemen, giant bird
Others: Cro [cro-magnon man], Professor Barnes [Paul's superior]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s USA; prehistory
Synopsis: Paul and Cathy pass through a fog into the distant past, and are chased by a variety of terrors before being saved by Cro. They then go home.

"The Teddy Bear"

Title: "I am Robot X"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Robot X [sentient robot]
Villains: Charles J. Wentworth [Daily Clarion publisher, Martian]
Others: Professor Jonathan Wilkes [X's inventor], his assistant, prototype robots
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960s Earth
Synopsis: Robot X seems to turn against mankind as Wentworth predicts, but X's only intent is to save humanity from Martian invaders, which it exposes. X then deactivates itself and all the robots it built.

Title: "What Lurks Within?"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Christopher Rule
Heroes: Dr. Droom
Villains: aliens [revealed to be Deviant mutates in Marvel Universe #4]
Genre: Science Fiction, Super-Hero
Setting: 1960s Center City
Synopsis: When aliens appear at a farm, Dr. Droom comes to drive them away, tricking them into thinking a derrick is a human lifeform.
Notes: Retold in Marvel Universe #4.

"Who Or What Was the Bootblack?"

Title: "The Watchers!"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: Henry Fletcher [scientist]
Others: Tom Smith [janitor, alien in disguise]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Chillers#2; Marvel Super-Heroes#29
Synopsis: Fletcher talks to Tom, and tells him how he believes aliens may have guided humanity's development. Tom tells him he's overworked, and Fletcher decides to forget about it. Unknown to him, however, Tom is really an alien, sent to keep an eye on Fletcher on himself.

"The Escape of Monsteroso"
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#28
"The Joker"
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#29

Title: "Krogg!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Paul Reinman
Heroes: Dr. Droom
Villains: Krogg [alien invader]
Genre: Science Fiction, Super-Hero
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Man-Thing#3
Synopsis: Droom investigates disappearing houses and finds Krogg is behind it, shrinking them to study in his lab; he defeats Krogg and returns the homes to normal.
Notes: Named changed to Dr. Druid in reprints.

"Sserpo, the Creature That Crushed the World"
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#27
"The Fourth Man"

Title: "The Bell-Ringer!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Pedros [bell-ringer]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s, "volcanic island in the blue mediterranean"
Reprinted In: Amazing Fantasy#15 Marvel Milestone
Synopsis: When a volcano erupts, the fishing village evacuates, except for Pedros, who remains to ring the bells. A shaft of light saves Pedros, taking him into the sky-- someone was listening.

Title: "Man in the Mummy Case!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: a mummy, Rocco Rank [robber]
Others: Policemen
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s museum
Reprinted In: Amazing Fantasy#15 Marvel Milestone
Synopsis: Rocco hides from the police in a museum, where a living mummy offers him his mummy case to hide in. He does so, and is transported to ancient egypt, made to build pyramids as a slave.

Title: "There are Martians Among Us!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: Two Martians
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Amazing Fantasy#15 Marvel Milestone
Synopsis: When a flying saucer is found, a search for Martians begins. A man warns his wife to stay indoors, but she ventures out and is captured. This panicks the husband greatly-- for they are the Martians in question.

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Title: "The Black Shadow"
Story:
Art: Fred Kida
Heroes: Mike Murry [cemetary worker, dies]
Villains: Willile [shadow, dies], other shadows
Others: Joe Thorn [Mike's rival], Captain Brady [police officer]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Mike works at a cemetary alone, with his shadow his only friend; he dubs the shadow "Willie." Mike is so friendly to Willie he keeps Joe Thorn from treading on him. Willie accidentally reveals he can talk to Mike, thanking him for looking out for him. He tells Mike how to steal someone's shadow and Mike uses it to steal Joe's shadow; whatever is done to a separated shadow happens to its owner, so Mike tortures Joe's shadow as a form of blackmail. This becomes a profitable business for Mike, but when the other shadows learn Willie has told their secrets they execute him, killing Mike as well.
"The Weird Woman!"
"Murder In the Morgue!"
"A Voice From the Grave"
"It's Time To Go, Higgins!"

Title: "The Man Who Shrunk"
Story:
Art:
Heroes:: Jim Kirby [police detective]
Villains: Moru [Marcus, mad scientist, dies]
Others: The Belden BRothers [acrobats, victims of Moru], Jennie Lee [dancer, victim of Moru]
Genre: Horror
Setting: San Francisco, California
Synopsis: Kirby discovers Moru the entertainer has been capturing people and shrinking them for his acts. When he confronts him, Moru uses his shrinking gas on Kirby. Kirby becomes so small he enters Moru's bloodstream before returning to his normal size; bursting through Moru's flesh, he causes a stroke that kills Moru.
"Harrigan's Wake!"

Title: "The Eerie Escape"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Slimy [convict], a demonic man
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Slimy dreams of becoming a rat so he can commit crimes. A demonic man visits him in his cell and offers him the power to become a rat. When Slimy uses this power to escape his cell, the man reappears as a cat to kill him.
"What In the World"

Title: "The Cat's Meow!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Dr. Springer [psychiatrist]
Villains: Ralph Halley [black magician, dies]
Others: Helen Halley [Ralph's wife]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Mrs. Halley tells Dr. Springer about her belief her husband can transform into a mouse to terrorize her. He disbelieves her, but that evening Mr. Halley is found dead...with a mouse trap near his body.

Title: "Honeymoon of Horror"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Gordon [murderer], Sara Vaughn [ghost]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Gordon romances Sara to get her money, finally marrying her. He prepares to kill her on their honeymoon, only to learn Sara is already dead and he has married her ghost. Sara intends to haunt him so he runs to the police to confess his crimes, only to be thrown into an asylum where Sara continues to haunt him.

Title: "Close Shave"
Story:
Art: Werner Roth
Heroes: Dominic Costanza [barber]
Villains: Blackie [sailor]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Blakie walks into Costanza's barber shop as he is closing and forces him to give him a shave. Blackie boasts about his exploits, recalling how he beat a coal shoveler on the steamer Grey Ghost to death. As Dominic has Blackie strapped down and the razor sharpened, he reveals the man Blackie killed was his son...

Title: "The Clinging Vine"
Story:
Art: Fred Kida
Villains: Jenny Wills [wife, dies]
Others: Herbert Wills [wealthy man], Dr. Keith [doctor]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Jenny married Herbert for his money and hates how he spends his time devoted to his vines. Jenny wants to be with Keith, but Herbert's health is strangely resilient. Jenny finally decides to destroy the vines, hoping the shock will kill Herbert, but she trips on a root and is tangled in the vines, who strangle her to death.

Title: "Cave-In"
Story:
Art: Joe Sinnott
Villains: Herbert Marson [miner]
Others: Thawley [mine owner], Tearle, Clayton, Galliardi, Joe Leonard [miners], police officers [Ryan named]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Herbert steals Thawley's money and hides it in his lunchbox. Herbert misplaces the lunch inside the mine and heads in to find it again, only to be caught in a cave-in. Although he survives, he is trapped underground with rescue days away. He thinks at first his lunch will keep him alive - then he remembers he replaced his food with the stolen money.

Title: "Ghost Story"
Story:
Art: Bill Everett
Heroes: Red Collins [police detective, dies]
Villains: Rocky Nixon [criminal, dies]
Others: Police Chief Harrington
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: On the electric chair, Rocky vows revenge on Collins and on Judge Robert X. Brown, the man who sentenced him. Soon after, the judge is killed by mysterious means which suggest only a ghost could have entered his home. Collins recalls how Rocky had a partner named Grey the Great who was a magician and could have pulled off the murder. As the police head out to get Grey, Rocky's ghost enters the police station to kill Collins; as Collins dies, the police discover it couldn't have been Grey, he died three years ago.

Title: "The Weasel Returns!"
Story:
Art: Joe Sinnott
Heroes: Weasel Diamond [gambler, dies]
Villains: Ticker Slade [gambling den boss, dies], Max, Rocky [Slade's thugs]
Others: Monk [Weasel's pal], Sherry [Weasel's wife]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Blue Chip Club, 1950s
Synopsis: Weasel wins big at Slade's club and takes his winnings as a cheque. Slade has his men kill Weasel, but Weasel returns as a ghost to claim his cheque from Slade, who dies from fright. When Sherry finds Weasel's body, the cheque is in his wallet.

Title: "Which is Witch?"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Paul Painton [young man]
Villains: Charmaine [witch]
Others: Rita [normal woman]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Paul has to choose between Charmaine and Rita. He chooses Charmaine, but learns from farmers a witch is on the loose; the farmers expose Charmaine as the witch by exposing her to a cross. Paul goes to be with Rita, but Charmaine assumes her form. Paul has a silver bullet to kill the witch...but which is witch?

Title: "The Mousetrap"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Hector Black [Richards' friend]
Others: Richards [inventor, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Richards wants to make the perfect mousetrap because "the world will beat a path to your door." He finally shows Hector his atomic mousetrap which captures them in a vacuum. Hector kills Richards so he can have the mousetrap. The world does indeed beat a path to his door...as an army of rats and mice swarm over him.
Title: "Hands Off!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Mr. Denis [uncouth lout]
Villains: Petrified people
Genre: Horror
Setting: Pompeii, Italy, 1950s
Synopsis: Denis doubts the preserved bodies at Pompeii are real. When Mount Vesuvius erupts again the people come to life and force him to remain in the blast.
Title: "Drop Dead!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Professor Zurko [University professor]
Others: Clara Zurko [Professor's wife], Carl Barton [disrespectful student]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Zurko lectures on the power of the mind but his students think he's loony. When a man tries to mug him and he calls him a gorilla, the mugger turns into a gorilla; Zurko tries his newfound power again by making a man drop dead; however, he makes a poor decision when he tells his wife he needs her like a hole in his head.

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Title: "The Nightmare"
Story: Hank Chapman
Art: Al Pastino
Heroes: Hank [comic book writer]
Villains: Nightmare creatures [creations of Hank]
Others: Stan Lee [Hank's editor]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Hank purposefully has nightmares to provide story material, but his nightmarish creations hate him and decide to make him look like a monster. "Screaming Tomb"
"When a Planet Dies"
"Walking Ghost"

Title: "The Scientists"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Miller, Green and Smith [scientists]
Others: J.W. Winters [1751 clothing maker], Alexander the Great
Genre: Science-Fiction
Setting: 1951; 1751; 330 BC; near the dawn of time
Synopsis: The scientists send a brass ball back in time and cause their histories to be rewritten, but do not realize it; ultimately, they become amphibian-creatures because of slaying a creature at a vital stage of evolution. "Luck of Louis Nugent"
"The Little Black Box"
"Who Dares to Enter"
"Where is Death"

Title: "The Walking Dead"
Story:
Art: Al Eadeh
Heroes: Dr. Leon Drago [scientist, dies]]
Villains: Zombie [dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Drago's laboratory
Reprinted In: Creatures On The Loose#31; Book of the Dead#3
Synopsis: Dr. Drago brings a dead man back to life, but cannot restore its brain. He destroys himself and the zombie in his lab.

Title: "The Man Who Owned A Ghost!"
Story:
Art: Bill Everett
Villains: Alan Kent [ghost-summoner]
Others: Helen Kent [Alan's wife, dies], George [architect, Helen's lover]
Genre: Horror
Setting: a cliffside manor
Reprinted In: Curse of the Weird#1; Weird Wonder Tales#6
Synopsis: Kent summons a ghost to kill his wife, but it turns out he's already dead-- the ghost he summoned was his own!
"Only An Insect"
"Melvin and the Martian"
"I Solved the Problem"

Title: "The Day Harrington Died"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Hugo [business man, dies], Valulu [island god]
Others: Jim Harrington [Hugo's partner, dies] Benli and other natives of Seakomo
Genre: Horror
Setting: Seakomo [island]
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#18
Synopsis: Hugo tricks the zealous natives of Seakomo to kill Harrington by planting the sacred ruby of their god Valulu on his person, but the statue of Valulu itself comes to life and kill Hugo for his deception.
"The Last of Mr. Mordeaux"
Reprinted In: Tomb of Darkness#16
"Reign of Terror"
"The Freak"
"The Hound Dog"

Title: "Ghoul's Gold"
Story:
Art: Bernie Krigstein
Heroes: Jim [police detective]
Villains: Mr. Grimm [morgue worker with gold, dies]
Others: Mr. Cowdry [man who trades money for gold]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: B. Krigstein Comics
Synopsis: Grimm's constant supply of gold leads to a police investigation, which reveals he steals the gold from dead people's mouths; a fire breaks out in the morgue, and Grimm perishes, his hand stuck inside a mouth.

Title: "The Three Feathers"
Story: Hank Chapman
Art: Mike Sekowsky
Villains: Albert Hendricks [heir], Jane Hendricks [Albert's wife, dies]
Others: Alice Hendricks [Albert's grandmother, dies], Mike [police detective], Ed [police detective, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Albert dresses up as a monster and scares his grandmother to death so he can inherit her fortune. His inheritance turns out to be a dart. When he picks it up he's overcome with rage and kills his wife. The police investigate and Mike picks up the dart, is overcome with rage and kills Ed.

Title: "The Death Watch"
Story:
Art: Cal Massey
Heroes: Carter [reporter, dies]
Villains: Death
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Carter goes to Eleazer P. Dunnock's manor to report on his impending death. He sees a beautiful woman and thinks he can find an angle for his story using her; when she tries to brush him off he tries to blackmail her and forces himself on her, but when he kisses her he dies; she's Death, come to claim Dunnock.

Title: "Helen's Husband!"
Story:
Art: Ogden Whitney
Villains: Justin [new groom], Helen Moore [living dead]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Justin recently married Helen so he could get her money. Her mansion has a graveyard filled with dead relatives. Justin digs a grave for Helen then stabs her, but she survives; she's one of the living dead and married him so she could drink his blood; the cemetery is filled with her dead husbands.

Title: "The House on the Hill"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Judd Langley [lecturer]
Villains: Dr. Harvey Morse [ghostly brain surgeon], Emma Morse [ghostly wife]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Langley is invited to Morse's home for a lecture but Morse tries to cut out his brain; Langley escapes and meets a man who claims to be the real Dr. Morse and explains Langley saw ghosts of a pair of murderers. However, Dr. Morse is the ghost and corners Langley to remove his brain.

Title: "Don't Make a Ghoul of Yourself!"
Story:
Art: Dick Ayers
Heroes: A cemetary watchman
Villains: A ghoul
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: A watchman catches a ghoul in the cemetary and the ghouls offers to grant the watchman a wish in exchange for his escape. The watchman wishes for wealth and receives it, becoming a maharaja. However, before he can enjoy his riches he dies...and the ghoul comes for his body.
"The Miser"
Reprinted In: B. Krigstein Comics
"I Prowl By Night"
"Terror in Jimmy's House"

Title: "Drive of Death"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Rod Wilson
Others: unnamed man [dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Dracula#2
Synopsis: Wilson hits a man and kills him with his car, and decides to dispose of the body by driving his car into a lake. Hitchhiking home, he is picked up by his own car-- driven by the dead man.

"The Werewolf of Wilmach"
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Werewolf By Night#2
"Tomb With a View"
"The Hiding Place"
"I Can't Move"

Title: "Man With a Tail"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Benjy Matznik [cat burglar, man with a tail, dies], Tigrina [cat person, woman with a tail, performer]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Uncanny Tales From the Grave#8
Synopsis: Benjy commits crimes with his tail to help him; after seeing Tigrina at a carnival he approaches her to make her his partner; she kills him-- he had the tail of a mouse, while she had the tail of a cat.

Title: "Sweet Old Ladies"
Story: Stan Lee
Art:
Villains: unnamed robber [dies], Agatha, other witches
Genre: Horror
Setting: Slowfalls
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Dracula#2
Synopsis: A robber hides out in Slowfalls, and decides to rob three old ladies. They give him their money, but insist they prepare a meal for him. He agrees, but the three of them are witches-- and they make a meal out of him.

Title: "Vampire At the Window"
Story: Stan Lee
Art:
Heroes: Reginald Rudley [dies]
Villains: Vampire, detective [vampire]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Dracula#2; Spider-Man Vs. Dracula
Synopsis: Rudley sees a vampire outside his window, and gets a detective to help him, but when the vampire appears again, the detective reveals he's a vampire too, and lets the other vampire have him first.

Title: "Back From the Grave"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Fred Kida
Heroes: August Gottlieb [scientist, dies]
Villains: Captain Simenovski [Soviet officer, dies], Ivan [black sorcerer], Josef Stalin
Others: Carl Gottlieb [August's son, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s Czechoslovakia; Moscow, USSR
Synopsis: August Gottlieb is killed by the Soviets. Carl asks Ivan to resurrect him with black magic and Ivan complies, but doesn't believe in his own power and alerts the Soviets to catch Carl; the Soviets kill Carl just as August returns; August kills the Soviets who killed his son then goes to Moscow to continue his vengeance, finally confronting Stalin with the intent of killing him...

Title: "A Thousand Years"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Timothy Wurnel [scientist]
Villains: Cat People
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA; 30th century
Synopsis: Wurnel tests his stasis device on a cat then uses it on himself so he can survive a thousand years into the future. Reviving, he finds Cat People rule the Earth and humans are extinct; as the Cat People prepare him for execution they show him the device which gave them intelligence - the machine Wurnel tested on his cat.

Title: "Top Billing!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Joe Maneely
Villains: Smith [comedian, dies]
Others: Sprinkle [comedian, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Smith resents Sprinkle because their act is billed "Sprinkle and Smith" and Sprinkle refuses to change it. Finally he decides to murder Sprinkle and sets his house on fire, but Smith is caught inside the blaze and dies with Sprinkle. They're buried in the same grave - but Sprinkle still has top billing.

Title: "Roll Call"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: John Masters [dies]
Villains: Death
Others: Peggy McBride [dies], Felix Archer [dies], May Masters [John's wife]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: As John is watching TV his house blacks out and he hears a voice on the set name himself, Peggy McBride and Felix Archer. Investigating, he finds Peggy dead and soon witnesses Felix's death. Returning home, John finds his wife cannot see him and thinks he died while watching TV; suddenly John realizes he is his own ghost and the voices he heard were the roll call of Death.

Title: "Living Doll!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jerry Robinson
Heroes: Gustav van Meer [chief of police]
Villains: Living Puppets
Others: Franz Froelich [toy shop owner], Sigmond [police officer]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s Europe
Synopsis: People are killed outside of Franz's toy shop. Franz claims his toys came to life to perform the deeds but the police don't believe him. When Franz turns up "dead" they discover he was just a giant toy; they place the shop under surveillance.
Notes: Retelling of Marvel Tales#97's "the Wooden Horror."

Title: "Hog Attack!"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Eric Kent [hunter, dies]
Others: David Kent [Eric's half-brother]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Eric enjoys hunting wild boar on his estate. When his brother David turns up he fears David will try to take his estate and arranges a hunting trip, planting blanks in David's gun. He leads David to the boar and has the creatures chase them, but Eric's horse stumbles before he can close the trap. David tries to save Eric, but has no live ammunition. Eric is pounced upon by a horde of boars.

Title: "Monkey Face"
Story:
Art: Manny Stallman
Villains: Monk Smith [ugly gangster], three mobsters [Rocky named], Satan
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Monk is called "Monkey-Face" by other crooks because of his ugly looks. Monk goads three men into aiding him on a robbery, during which they kill a guard. Monk turns on his allies and shoots them, but Rocky survives. Afraid Rocky can identify him easily because of his face, Monk declares he would sell his soul to change his face. Satan appears and grants his wish, giving him the face of a monkey. Irony.

Title: "Come in and Meet the Folks!"
Story:
Art: John Forte
Heroes: Mark [newlywed, dies]
Others: Dolores [Mark's wife, dies], Dolores' family
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s Kentucky
Synopsis: Mark meets and falls in love with Dolores, but she's reluctant to introduce him to her family. They finally journey to Kentucky, but Dolores' secrecy makes Mark suspicious. When he finds Dolores over a cauldron he realizes she's a witch and kills her. With the family arriving Mark takes poison in the bathroom and dies. It turns out Dolores was not a witch and was quiet about her family because they're hillbillies.

Title: "The Eyes!"
Story:
Art: Pete Tumlinson
Heroes: Jerry King [editor, Daily Herald]
Villains: Giant eyes [dissolve flesh]
Others: Evans and other crewmen of Albatross [sailors, die], a caretaker, Helen [Jerry's girlfriend]
Genre: Science Fiction, Horror
Setting: 1950s, Narraganset, Rhode Island
Synopsis: Giant eyes emerge from the ocean and go on a rampage through Rhode Island. A caretaking brings Jerry to his cemetery where they witness the eyes collecting eyes from dead humans, growing them into new members of their race. Jerry realizes the eyes are sensitive to light and with an army of flashlights they drive the creatures away. Suddenly, a news broadcast comes in: someone just went on a crime spree for sunglasses...
"The Rulers of Earth"
"The Death of Me"
"The Future of Oswald Flush"
"Until You Are Dead"

Title: "The Evil Eye"
Story:
Art: Pablo Ferro
Villains: A hag [dies]
Others: Sicilians
Genre: Horror
Setting: A village in Sicily
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#19; Book of the Dead#2
Synopsis: Hag is believed by villagers to have "the evil eye". She decides to see if she truly does, examines her hideous reflection, and dies.
"Point of View"
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#23
"I Ain't Got No Body"
Reprinted In: Tomb of Darkness#15
"Once a Werewolf"
"Til Death Do Us Part"

Title: "Greed!"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Mark Bardo (greedy scientist, dies), Martians
Others: Miller, Johnny (scientists)
Genre: Science-Fiction
Setting: Montana
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales#5
Synopsis: Barod is contacted telepathically by Martians who promise him gold if he will build a machine so they can invade earth; he agrees, but doesn't realize the Martians died thousands of years ago, and when the gold arrives, it is liquid, and buries him.
"No Feelings"

Title: "The Strange Courage"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: Lennie [publishing employee]
Others: Don [Lennie's rival], Betty [Lennie's co-worker], Ernie Haywood [pharmacist], Mr. Clarke [publisher]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Lennie is considered timid and is about to be passed over for promotion. Visiting a drug store, he meets Ernie, a man he saved in Korea. Ernie gives Lennie a bottle of liquid which will give him courage. Lennie suddenly remembers Ernie died of his wounds, but Ernie is gone. Lennie drinks the bottle and with newfound courage gets his promotion, wins Betty's love and puts his rival Don in his place. Returning to the drug store, the shop owner denies having employed Ernie.
"When Lands the Saucer"
"The House That Was"
"Welcome Martian"
"The Rainmaker"

Title: "Forbidden Forest!"
Story:
Art: Tony DiPreta
Heroes: Gil and Leo [hunters]
Others: St. Hubert [patron saint of hunters]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Ardennes, Belgium, 1950s
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#33
Synopsis: Gil and Leo are lost in the woods and find a cabin. The owner, Hubert takes care of them and they resume hunting, only to be menaced by a giant boar. Hubert saves them and they keep his knife. Returning to town they hear there is no cabin in the woods; the knife belongs to a statue of St. Hubert.

Title: "Contents: One Human!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Sam Shore [postman]
Villains: Martian [Small Fares Inc.]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s New York
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#13
Synopsis: Shore discovers people are being shrunk down and sent through the mail to save on airplane costs; he tracks down the man responsible, who proves to be a Martian-- who then shrinks Sam.
"I Hear the Thump"

Title: "The Hypnotist!"
Story:
Art: Bernie Krigstein
Heroes: Irwin Botts [coward, becomes champion boxer]
Villains: Professor Dubois [hypnotist]
Others: Mickey Davis, Jordan [boxers] Kid Rogan [world champion boxer]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales #19
Synopsis: Botts goes to Dubois to help him overcome his cowardice; Dubois hypnotizes him into a champion fighter, until he defeats Kid Rogan himself; Dubois then releases him from his control, and bets against him in the re-match with Rogan; however, Botts wins, having found the courage he needed.

Title: "Spaceship in my Barn"
Story:
Art: Bill Everett
Heroes: reporter
Others: Luml, Xrtyl [Aldebarans], Alfie and his wife [farmers]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Tomb of Darkness #23
Synopsis: A reporter meets a farmer who claims to have a spaceship in his barn-- he also has two aliens, who came to visit to collect animals; the reporter wants to photograph them, but they depart too quickly; he hopes instead to use the alien animal bones they left behind, only to find Alfie's dog ate the bones.
"Eve of Halloween"
Reprinted In: Tomb of Darkness#18
"The Fat Man"

Title: "The Man Who Looked for Death!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Al Benton [reporter]
Others: Norman Hale [immortal man], Christopher Columbus, Richard the Lion-Hearted
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA; Gnossos, Rome
Synopsis: Benton is sent to discover how Hale writes such convincing historical novels. When he and Hale are briefly trapped in a cave Hale reveals he's immortal and has lived through thousands of years of history. Now that Benton knows his secret, he plans to adopt a new identity and disappear again.

Title: "The Sudden Storm
Story:
Art:
Others: Noah and his wife [owners of children's zoo]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Dead of Night #9
Synopsis: As storm Tessie ravages the land, the owners of a children's zoo are told to evacuate, but they refuse; after all, they've faced floods before.

Title: "To Conquer the Moon"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Captain Ashley [astronaut], Macklin [navigator], Simms [engineer], Beach [jealous astronaut]
Others: Invisible aliens
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: The Moon
Synopsis: The first men on the moon include a group of ambitious people and Beach resents Ashley's command; invisible aliens inject them with a serum that removes all greed, jealousy, power and arrogance from them and let them return to Earth so they can spread its influence.

Title: "What the clouds Concealed"
Story:
Art: Mortellaro
Heroes: Barney Marlin [stuntman]
Villains: Mazak [other-dimensional warlord], Mazak's men
Others: Chernak [director]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA; An alien dimension
Synopsis: Marlin tries out a craft meant for use in a movie and it turns out to have the power to traverse dimensions. In another dimension he is brought before Mazak who wants to imprison him to keep others from finding his world but Marlin escapes and returns to Earth.

Title: "The Searching Man"
Story:
Art: Paul Reinman
Heroes: Emory Wallace [homeless man]
Others: Mr. Rolph [Gorley executive]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s New York
Synopsis: Wallace finds a good luck charm from Gorley Inc; it inspires him to seek a job there and becomes a salesman. No matter how outrageous his schemes are, he proves to be a success and finally goes into his own business. Deciding his success is due to his own business he throws the charm away but within a month loses his vast fortune and winds up back in the gutter, searching for the charm.

Title: "As I Lay Sleeping"
Story:
Art: Tony DiPreta
Heroes: Fred Craven [boy]
Others: Mr. and Mrs. Craven [Fred's parents]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Fred sees a toy 707 train engine in a store and wishes he had it; the next day his old steam engine toy is gone and replaced with the 707. He and his parents find the steam engine in the toy store the 707 was in and exchange them back. Unaccountably, they change places again and the store tells Fred to keep the 707. It seems the toy train dispatcher from the store has sent the train to Fred.

Title: "The World of Flame!"
Story:
Art: C.F. Miller
Heroes: Skipper and his crew
Others: People of the sun
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: The World of Flame
Reprinted In: Amazing Adventures#26
Synopsis: A ship is tossed so high by a storm that it reaches the sun, where they meet the people who live there in the World of Flame. The people of the sun send them home, their sunburns the only proof of their visit. "Man in the Sky"
"No Such Animal"
"Those Who Vanish"
"The Edge of the Cliff"
"Needle in a Haystack"
"The Peace-Monger"

Title: "Nightmare at Noon!"
Story:
Art: Angelo Torres
Heroes: Chris
Villains: Pirates
Others: Stella [Chris' girlfriend], Mr. Kelp [land dealer], Miss Bianca [purchaser]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Chris' island
Reprinted In: Worlds Unknown #1
Synopsis: Chris is uneasy about selling his island to appease his girlfriend, he enjoys the romantic beauty of the place; he awakens after a rest to find pirates holding a woman hostage; he defeats the pirates, and sets her free, but she vanishes, tossing him a ring; when he awakens, Kelp is there to sell the island to Miss Bianca-- who looks just like the woman from his dream.

"The Old Man's Secret"
Reprinted In: Journey Into Mystery#16
"When the Walls Close In"
"No Trespassing"
"Man With Wings"
"World of Flame"

Title: "Where Prowls the Beast!"
Story:
Art: Angelo Torres
Heroes: Daniel Morey [explorer]
Villains: Tyrannosaurus Rex, Apatosauruses, Pterodactyls
Others: Mark Trask [explorer], Ogopi [native]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s Nairobi, Kenya
Synopsis: Natives in Africa find a note addressed to Morey attached to a bird. The note is ferryed to Morey, who recognizes it as a message from Trask. He recalls how he and Trask always argued over man's physical powers versus his mental power, with Trask in favour of the mental. In the note, Morey learns how Trask found a plateau in Africa where dinosaurs still live, but a T-Rex destroyed his camp. He attached the message to a bird to find help. Morey leads a rescue party, but he discovers that Trask has gone savage, assuming the physical over the mental. Morey decides he's better left there.

Title: "The Face in the Glass!"
Story:
Art: John Forte
Villains: Boris Hann [thief, dies]
Others: Johann [mirror maker], police, old man [dies]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: European town
Reprinted In: Monster of Frankenstein#10
Synopsis: Boris breaks into Johann's shop, and to save his life, Johann gives him a magic mirror, that will allow Boris to become whatever he desires. He embarks on a crime spree, and is soon chased by the police, shoving over an old man as he runs. Reaching the mirror, he wishes he was the old man he had shoved because no one would expect him. He does, and promptly dies-- the old man died of a heart attack after being knocked over.

Title: "Voodoo"
Story:
Art: Gene Colan
Villains: Claude Carvel [import manager]
Others: Monty Darrow [general manager], Harold Wadley [secretary], Ed Lawson [treasurer], David Atkins [vice-president], Imogene [Carvel's maid], Mr. Webb [company president
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Strange Tales#172
Synopsis: Angered at having been passed over for promotions, Carvel uses voodoo statues to take jobs away from his superiors, one a time, but when his maid accidentally re-arranges them, he loses it all-- but receives a promotion to Second-Vice President anyway.

"No Answer"
Reprinted In: Beware#2
"They Walk Through Walls"
"Afraid to Dream"
"Something Waits for Me"

Title: "The Girl Behind the Glass!"
Story:
Art: Jay Scott Pike
Heroes: Jonas [deep sea diver]
Villains: Atlanteans
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Atlantis
Reprinted In: Strange Tales#177
Synopsis: While diving, Jonas sees into a glass dome, and spies a city on the ocean's floor. There, he sees a beautiful woman, and later returns, intent on freeing her from Atlantis with explosives. However, close up, he finds that she is 8 feet tall, webbed, and gilled, with sharp teeth. He instead decides to use the explosives to destroy Atlantis, and gives up deep sea diving.

Title: "Who Is the Master?"
Story:
Art: Robert Q. Sale
Heroes: Charles Norton [scientist, dog breeder]
Others: Raymond Mantell [scientist], Uncas [Norton's dog]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#4
Synopsis: Norton's work on making dogs smarter appears to have worked too well, as his dog Uncas appears to be telepathic. Norton believes that dogs are fated to replace men, and sets out to destroy them.

"The Eyes of Mala-Tor"
Reprinted In: Creatures On the Loose#26
"Just Make a Wish"
"Behind the Veil"
"The Trapped City"

Title: "Trapped by the Little Men!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: unnamed man [descendant of Gullvier]
Others: a researcher, Lilliputians
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: America
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#13
Synopsis: A man is visited by tiny men from Lilliputia who are making reforms, and want the descendant of Gulliver to come with them; he complies.

Title: "The Monster in the Mist!"
Story:
Art: Al Williamson
Heroes: Professor Kerrin
Villains: A sea serpent
Others: Ship's crew [Francisco named]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Philippines; 1519
Reprinted In: Monsters Unleashed#7
Synopsis: Kerrin leads an expedition to find a sea serpent in the Philippines. Finding a message in a bottle, the ship goes to answer the distress call and enter a mist. A sea serpent attacks them but they evade it by escaping from the mist. They realize afterward the distress message was sent in 1519 and the mist transported them through time.
"The House of Fears"
"The Trap"
"Secret of the Golden Idol"
"When he Presses the Button"

Title: "Midnight in the Wax Museum!"
Story:
Art: Richard Doxsee
Heroes: Joe Kenyon [police detective]
Villains: Mike Anders [escaped murderer]
Others: Police officers
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Reprinted In: Fear#20
Synopsis: Kenyon is hunting for Anders and tracked him to a wax museum where a statue of Anders is on display. Seeing the other police are afraid of the museum, Kenyon mocks them so they bet him $10 to spend a night in the museum. Kenyon agrees, but in the middle of the night Anders appears, having taken his statue's place. They fight and Anders knocks Kenyon out. When Kenyon comes to, the other police tell him they caught Anders ten minutes after leaving the museum.
"Mystery in Mid-air"
"The Frightful Film"
"The Floating Man"
"The Too Late Show"
"The Creeping Threat"

Title: "The Girl With the Evil Eyes!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Jack Taylor
Villains:
Others: Mabambu (voodoo priestess), Ben Taylor (Jack's business partner), Marcia (Ben's fiancee)
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Haiti
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#21
Synopsis: While in Haiti, Jack finds an amulet that grants him dreams of the future in which his brother becomes engaged to Marcia, but Jack then falls in love with Marcia and she tries to make him kill Ben; when the dream ends, Jack finds that Ben has become engaged to Marcia in real life... "Piece of Rope"
"The Terrible Toy"
"A Tender Tale of Love"
"The Room That Wasn't There"
"The Secret Beyond Belief"

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Title: "The Monster From the Mound!"
Story: Robert E. Howard, Gardner F. Fox
Art: Frank Brunner
Heroes: Steve Brill [rancher]
Villains: Santiago De Valdez [vampire, dies]
Others: Juan Lopez [Mexican, dies]
Genre: Horror
Setting: West Texas
Reprinted In: Masters of Terror#1
Synopsis: Brill believes that gold can be found in an indian burial mound, but unleashes Valdez instead; in combat at his cabin, he kills Valdez by burning the house down.

Title: "Thirst"
Story: Steve Gerber, Dan Adkins
Art: P. Craig Russell, Dan Adkins
Villains: vampire
Others: John, Charlie, Emerson, Tockman, others [crew of the Wolf, all die]
Genre: Horror, Science-Fiction
Setting: 2180, starship Wolf
Synopsis: A vampire aboard the ship Wolf begins to kill the crew, who barely recall the legends of vampires; by the time the captain remembers how to kill one, the vampire has already cast the only piece of wood aboard into space.

Title: "Spell of the Dragon!"
Story: John Jakes, Dan Adkins
Art: Val Mayerik, Joe Sinnott, Dan Adkins
Heroes: Brak the Barbarian
Villains: Valena [witch, dies], dragon [dies]
Others: Jonel [Brak's lover]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Khurdisan
Reprinted In: Savage Tales#5
Synopsis: Brak is helped in slaying a dragon by Valena, who says that after killing the dragon, the first human he sees will die; Brak turns the tables by making sure Valena is the first person he sees.

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Title: "It's Only Magic!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: John Buscema, John Verpoorten
Heroes: Tommy
Villains: Djinn
Others: Headstone P. Gravely [host], Hiram the Hermit [bookstore owner]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Tomb of Darkness#19; Chamber of Darkness Special
Synopsis: Tommy swipes a book on magic and summons up a Djinn to do his bidding, but seeing how evil it is, he forces it to turn back time so that he never summoned him.

"Mr. Craven Buys His Scream House"
Reprinted In: Chamber of Darkness Special
"Always Leave 'Em Laughing"
Reprinted In: Chamber of Darkness Special

Title: "Forewarned is Four-Armed!"
Story: Neal Adams, Roy Thomas
Art: Marie Severin, Herb Trimpe, Tom Sutton
Heroes: Carl Brock [convict]
Villains: Dr. Caruthers, other four-armed telepathic aliens
Others: Headstone P. Gravely [host]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: America
Reprinted In: Creatures on the Loose#14
Synopsis: Brock escapes jail, and encounters an alien, learns his plot to replace humans for an invasion; he tries to warn others, but the psychiatrist assigned to him is an alien himself.

"The Face of Fear"
Reprinted In: Chamber of Darkness Special
"The Day of the Red Death"
Reprinted In: Chamber of Darkness Special

Title: "The Man Who Owned The World!"
Story: Tom Sutton, Dennis O'Neil
Art: Tom Sutton
Villains: Gregory Irkadin [millionaire]
Others: Tom Sutton [host], Cynthia Irkadin [Gregory's granddaughter], Dr. Theodore [cryogenicist]
Genre: Science-Fiction
Setting: late 20th century; late 21st century
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales#15
Synopsis: Irkadin has himself cryogenically preserved so he can escape the tumult of the 20th century, but when he awakens, finds that mankind has abandoned earth, leaving him alone.

Title: "The Sword and the Sorcerers"
Story: Roy Thomas
Art: Barry Smith
Heroes: Starr the Slayer
Villains: Trull the Wizard
Others: Bran, Mak, and Morn Realtors; Len Carson, Officer O'Neal, Whitney, Morro the Minstrel
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Setting: 1970s USA; Zardath (city)
Reprinted In: Conan the Barbarian#16, Conan Saga#6; Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas
Synopsis: Starr the Slayer usurped the throne of the city of Zardath from Trull the Wizard. During a battle with Trull, Starr flings his sword at him. Then, on Earth, a man named Len Carson awakens. He wrote the Starr the Slayer stories based on dreams that came to him. After his last dream, he decided to write the last entry in the series. However, he is ambused by Starr, who has come to Earth to prevent that story from being published. Starr awakens in Zardath and meets with Morro the minstrel, telling him of his strange trip.
Notes: Starr the Slayer is drawn to resemble Conan-but then this issue preceded by Conan the Barbarian I#1 as a try-out. Bran Mark Morn was a Pictish hero also created by Robert E. Howard, and existed on Earth-616.

"The Beast From the Bog"

Title: "The Music From Beyond"
Story: H.P. Lovecraft, Roy Thomas
Art: Johnny Craig
Heroes: unnamed man
Others: Erich Zann [dead man, violinist], Blandot [landlord]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Rue D'Auseil
Reprinted In: Masters of Terror#2
Synopsis: A man discovers that Zann plays music which can warp reality itself; after being exposed to the void generated by the old man's music, the hero goes mad, and cannot find Zann again.

Title: "Put Another Nickel In!!!"
Story: Mimi Gold
Art: Dick Ayers
Heroes: Elliot (detective)
Villains: Jimmy Deparis (patent thief, dies)
Others: Mat Wyatt (inventor, dies)
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960s USA
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#21
Synopsis: Deparis kills Wyatt while stealing patents, and hides at an arcade; he plays with a nickelodeon machine that shows him his past, and then depicts the police closing in on him; he runs, and falls from a window and dies; the police found him using the same nickelodeon, built by Mat Wyatt.

Title: "Gargoyle Every Night"
Story: Berni Wrightson, Roy Thomas
Art: Berni Wrightson
Villains: Emil Vogel [statue-maker], Clive and Billy [thieves, die]
Others: Berni Wrightson [host], the Golden Angel [statue, destroyed]
Genre: Horror
Setting: England
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Chillers#3; Book of the Dead#1
Synopsis: Two thieves try to steal Vogel's statue of the Golden Angel, melting it down-- but learn that Vogel is actually a demon, one that only the Golden Angel could stop from killing!

"I Wore the Mask of Drothar" from Tales To Astonish#11
"I Found the Abominable Snowman" from Tales To Astonish#13
"Mastermind"
Reprinted In: Tales of the Zombie#1

Title: "Believe It...Or Not"
Story: Bill Everett
Art: Dan Adkins, Bill Everett
Heroes: Johnny Boone [recon pilot, dies]
Villains: Death
Others: Bill Everett, Dan Adkins [hosts]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1970s Russia
Synopsis: Boone's plane is struck by lightning and he lands in Russia; a trenchcoated man informs him that he died when the lightning hit him, and has Boone join him in death.

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Title: "The Underground Gambit"
Story: Len Wein
Art: Herb Trimpe
Villains: Roger Krass [underground cartoonist], Herbert T. Brimstone [Satan]
Others: Zack, other underground cartoonists
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1960s USA, Hell
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#24
Synopsis: Krass gives up pretending to be part of the underground after an offer from Brimstone, only to find that Brimstone is taking him into the deep underground-- Hell.

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"Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble" from Adventures Into Terror#27
"Vampire Man" from Adventures Into Terror#29

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Title: "The Greatest Magician of All"
Story: Mimi Gold
Art: Bill Everett
Heroes: Marko the Great [magician]
Villains: Waldo Roberts [Marko's assistant]
Others: Jane Holt [Sunday Times reporter], Jeff Parness [Sunday Times photographer]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1970s USA; flashback to 1920s
Synopsis: Marko tells reporters of his attempt to perform greatest magic feat by seeming to disappear; his assistant Waldo stole the shrinking potion he had found to do so, but as there is no antidote, Waldo remains tiny for the rest of his life.

"Dead Man's Escape" from Adventures Into Terror#11

"Faceless Ones" from Adventures Into Terror#29

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Title: "Monster of Moog"
Story:
Art: Russ Heath
Heroes: Paul [scientist]
Villains: Lod [psychic robot, dies]
Others: Ona [Paul's girlfriend], Dr. Arden [scientist], Moss [defense officer], Rana [Lod's slave, dies], "robots" [human slaves]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: April 7, 3250, Chicago Universarium of Cosmic Research; Moog
Synopsis: Lod kidnaps Ona and brings her to Moog to be his bride. On Moog, Lod rules over a civilization of loyal robots but turns the robots off for his wedding. Paul and Moss arrive in pursuit and set the robots free. Lod dies without the robots to maintain control and it is revealed the robots rae really humans, Lod was the robot.

Title: "The Strange Car"
Story:
Art: Russ Heath
Heroes: Earl Rawls [car thief]
Villains: Alien invaders
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Rawls steals a car that turns out to have the power to travel through dimensions. Arriving in another world, he discovers the car belongs to a race of aliens planning Earth's invasion. Escaping back to Earth he destroys the car, killing the alien who owned it.

Title: "No Escape"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Boris Chetspoth [assistant]
Others: Professor Polkin [scientist, dies], Sigrid Polkin [scientist's daughter]
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Setting: Zilka Castle, Central Europe
Synopsis: When Polkin develops a secret formula Boris kills him and ingests the formula, only to be transformed into a transparent state; he quickly writes his story down to beg for help, but the people who find his note think it's a joke.

Title: "When Worlds Collide"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Lord Sett [microworld ruler, dies]
Others: An elderly scientist [dies], John and Glen [two scientists]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: A microworld
Synopsis: Lord Sett engages in an atomic war in space, despite a scientist's warnings. As a result of the battle, a planet loses its orbit and crashes into Sett's world, destroying it. In a lab on Earth, a scientist sees the destruction of Sett's world on his glasses, perceiving it as nothing more than two motes of dust colliding.

Title: "The Sleeping Giants!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Rod Furbush [anthropologist]
Villains: A race of 12-foot tall giants [die]
Others: Janet Penny [Rod's assistant]
Genre: Horror
Setting: Cortonina, Amazon Jungle
Synopsis: Rod and Janet find a race of giants in the Amazon who come to life after slumbering for 3,000 years. Before they can begin their mission of conquest an earthquake buries them alive.

Title: "The First Rocket!"
Story:
Art: Bill Everett
Heroes: Tex Reynolds [astronaut, dies], Major Joe Penning [astronaut]
Villains: Adolf Hitler [dies], other Nazis
Others: Sgt. Sumner Hall and Jennings [radar operators], Moon Men
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: August 2, 1964; Radar Intelligence, New Mexico; the moon
Synopsis: The first men on the moon discover that Hitler is alive and maintaining a slave camp where the natives are drugged to obey him. Tex dies bringing news of this back to the Earth and a missile strike destroys Hitler.

Title: "They Crawl by Night!"
Story: Dan Keyes
Art: Basil Wolverton
Heroes: Mike Webster [insane asylum inmate]
Villains: Crabmen [subterranean creatures with human heads]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Webster sees Crabmen in the asylum at night among the patients, but the staff think he's crazy. He follows the Crabmen through their secret entrance and discovers they plan to transform all surface people into Crabmen so they can rule the world. Mike tries to warn the staff but they throw him in a straight jacket. One of the Crabmen visits Mike in the night and bites him. The next day, Mike is a Crabman and confronts the staff, but they are also Crabmen now and think everything is normal.

Title: "The Man From Another World!"
Story:
Art: Robert McCarty
Villains: Totha Karf [Saturnian spy, dies], Commander Akor Mlee [Saturnian leader], Saturnian soldiers
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Manhattan, New York, 1950s; starship Saturnia
Synopsis: Totha Karf is sent to Earth on a scouting mission to prepare for invasion. He finds a group of "vocalists" and decides to assume their form and enter their ranks, but has unknowingly joined a prison choir; when he tries to leave the prison, he's shot to death.
"The Long Wait"

Title: "Bwana Brown!"
Story:
Art: Gene Colan
Villains: Alex Steel [explorer, dies], Bwana Brown [explorer, chieftain], Kato-Kato [African natives]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s Manhattan, New York; Africa
Synopsis: Brown tells his explorers club about an African tribe who will give vast amounts of gold and jewels to anyone who can prove himself a god, which can be easily achieved thanks to modern technology. Alex tracks Brown to his room and kills him to gain the location of the tribe and goes to prove himself a god; the Kato-Kato demand a certain test and wind up beheading him; they present his head to Brown, their chieftain, who is actually immortal, which is how he proved himself a god to the Kato-Kato.

Title: "The Son of Rasputin"
Story:
Art: Russ Heath
Villains: Boris Lachova [scientist, dies]
Others: Petrov Olansk [actor, dies], Natasha Lachova [actress, Boris' wife], Georgio [Boris' valet]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s Moscow, USSR
Synopsis: Boris trains his mice to react to bells and uses this technique to win Natasha away from Petrov; he conditions Natasha to fire a gun at the sound of a bell, then tricks her into shooting Petrov. He puts Natasha fully under his control, marrying her. When a fire breaks out in his house the firemen come to rescue them, but the fire bell sets off Natasha's conditioning and she shoots at the firemen; the firemen abandon the building, leaving Boris to die in the flames.

Title: "The Secret of Asteroid #85!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Gil Evans
Villains: Thor, Leu, Jonn [convicts, all die]
Others: An alien
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Distant future, Earth, Asteroid #85
Synopsis: Thor, Leu and Jonn break out of prison and fly a rocket to Asteroid #85, said to be uninhabited. They accidentally crash the rocket but see another rocket and decide to take it. After they walk inside, the rocket comes to life - it's the native alien species.

Title: "A Monument to Mortimer!"
Story:
Art: Hy Fleischman
Villains: Mortimer Snapely [bratty child, dies], Death [dies]
Others: Miss Stanton [Mortimer's governess, dies], Mr. and Mrs. Snapely [both die], Saturnians
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Distant future; 2027-2030s USA
Synopsis: Humans explain to Saturnians why they erected statues to Mortimer. Mortimer was a wicked boy who led his governess and parents into seeming accidents which killed them. He was finally struck by a car and taken by Death, but Mortimer's spirit wound up killing Death, leaving mankind free to reach its fullest potential.

Title: "The Race That Vanished"
Story:
Art: Don Perlin
Heroes: Rollo Winslow [explorer]
Others: Collins, Spencer [explorers]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Post-2439, Manhattan, New York
Synopsis: Winslow leads an expedition to the "Lost Islands," finding a jungle wasteland of weird creatures. They discover evidence humans once lived there and unearth a time capsule planted in 1939; the Lost Islands are Manhattan.

Title: "The Fear!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: James [dies]
Others: Milly [James' wife], Cuddles [Milly's cat]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: James plans to leave his wife and take off with a secret stash of money, but during a lightning storm he goes for the cash box only to find the cat sitting atop it. Thinking it must be safe, he grabs the box, only to be electrocuted to death; the cat survived because it had nine lives.

Title: "Reincarnation!"
Story:
Art: Mort Meskin
Heroes: George Prescott [young man]
Villains: Two gangsters (Blackie named)
Others: Frank [George's uncle, dies], Mr. Ryan [Frank's lawyer]
Genre: Horror
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: George needs to pay off his gambling debts so he talks up reincarnation to his wealthy uncle, convincing him so that his uncle commits suicide. When the gangsters come for their money George goes with them to his uncle's lawyer to learn why it's taking so long; the lawyer reveals that Frank rewrote his will so that his money will be held for him until he is reincarnated!

Title: "Android!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: Ara [male android], Bab [female android]
Villains: A Martian dinosaur
Others: The Central United World Government
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Distant future, Mars
Synopsis: As the Earth faces overpopulation and starvation, mankind turns to their androids and have them scour the stars for a new planet, promising that on this new land the androids will have a world of their own and not have to follow the humans' rules. The androids finally choose Mars and conquer its environment, building sustainable habitation domes. But once Mars is ready for colonization, the androids find they must still follow the humans' rules on Mars.

Title: "The Man in the Box!"
Story:
Art:
Heroes: little man
Villains: thief
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Curio shop
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#1
Synopsis: A little man who lives in a box in a curio shop heads out every night to perform good deeds for people. When a man robbing the shop finds him, he wishes he was as small as him so he could rob places more easily. The two immediately switch places, and the little man reveals that now the thief must set out every night to perform good deeds until someone takes his place.
"Bomb Blast"
"The Pen Pal"
"Those Who Listen"
"Half Human"

Title: "When Ends the Dream"
Story:
Art: Angelo Torres
Heroes: A man [jacket illustration]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Book jacket cover
Synopsis: A man has recurring dreams of falling or flying; he's really just a picture on a jacket cover to the book "When Ends the Dream."

Title: "Johnny's Flying Saucer"
Story:
Art: Angelo Torres
Heroes: Johnny [a wistful young lad]
Others: Sam [Johnny's father], Johnny's mother, Professor Wilton [scientist], policemen
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s USA
Synopsis: Johnny doesn't want to rake the leaves in his family's backyard; suddenly, a flying saucer appears. The tiny vessel cannot be moved and soon attracts a crowd; it defies all analyses until Johnny opines that he wished it there so that he wouldn't have to rake leaves. When Johnny wishes it would disappear, it vanishes.

Title: "The Giants!"
Story:
Art: Paul Reinman
Heroes: Daniel [anthropologist]
Others: giants [ancestors of mankind], Dr. Mark Borland [anthropologist]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s Tibet
Synopsis: On an expedition, Daniel wills himself back in time to learn about humanity's ancestors in the hopes of learning why they ceased to exist, and then accidentally kills them when he is frightened and starts an avalanche.
"Calculated Risk"
"Down To the Sea!"
"Flying Saucer!"
"The Wonder Maker!"

Title: "The World Beneath the Sea"
Story:
Art: Al Williamson
Heroes: Ted Higgens [diver]
Others: Ship's crew [Tim named], Oceaniers [underwater people]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950s
Synopsis: Ted dives in the ocean and is found by Oceaniers. One of their women takes Ted to their underwater city, but he can only stay briefly because they have little oxygen. She gives him a sea rose and returns him to the surface. When Ted tries to tell others they think he was hallucinating, but he finds the sea rose still on his person.
"Journey of No Return"
"The Derelict in Space!"
"...And Never Come Back"
"Man Against the Moon"