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Issue Details

Issue #V4#4
Published July 1971
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 52
Editing Carl Burgos; Ezra Jackson (art)

Cover Details

Genre horror

7 page story "A Thing of Horror"

Synopsis "A pulsating weird tale of a blood-drenched wooden thing and its creator linked by fate until the spine-shattering end. Ye-ech!"
Genre horror
Pencils Hector Castellon (signed)
Inks Hector Castellon (signed)
Reprinted from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #12 [a redrawn version of "The Carpenter's Cursed Creature"]; in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#3 [in this redrawn version]

7 page story "The Witch of Doom"

Synopsis "The stark terror of a mean old hag and a scheming woman who stepped into the eerir world of witchcraft. Aw, go away before I put a hex on you!"
Genre occult
Notes Same basic script as original with new art.
Reprinted from Web of Mystery (Ace, 1951 Series) #14 (November 1952) [Original title "The Dead Dance on Halloween."]

6 page text story "Curse of the Sword"

Synopsis "Inanimate objects have no life of their own? Then what about the strange sword that forced its will on humans? A shocking Voodoo fiction tale."
Genre fantasy
Script Edgar Rice Burroughs? [as Frank Aubrey]
Pencils Ezra Jackson
Inks Ezra Jackson
Letters typeset
Reprinted From ? (1898).

8 page story "[The Frozen] Mummies"

Synopsis "Those who dare to tresspass the ancient mummy burial grounds must face the horrible consequences. Who's that guy wrapped up in dirty bandages?"
Genre horror
Reprinted from Strange Fantasy (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 Series) #6 [redrawn version of "Death on Ice"]

8 page story "Swamp Monsters"

Synopsis "All the money in the world can't keep when caught up in the web of the flesh-hungry swamp monsters. H-Help!"
Genre horror
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted from Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#2 [redrawn version of "The Life of Riley" from Beware (Trojan, 1953 series) #7]

6 page story "Terror in the Attic"

Synopsis "Bats chittered like graveyard rats over rotting floors as blood-curdling screams shatter the secret in the house."
Genre horror
Reprinted from Strange Fantasy (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 series) #13 (August 1954)

6 page story "Zombie For a Day"

Synopsis "Medical students joke with a corpse and it backfires into a nightmare of horror. Stop, you're dead! Do you hear, -dead!"
Genre horror