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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published May 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Index revised with information from atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "Hang Until Dead!"

Genre horror
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

5 page story "I Can't Stop Running!"

Synopsis A prospective diamond thief goes out to an old hermit's house where he is locked onto a treadmill with spikes at his back.
Genre horror
Pencils Sam Kweskin
Inks Sam Kweskin
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 (March 1974)

5 page story "Love Affair"

Synopsis A man and his secretary enjoy an affair in their shared dream, but when the girl's convict husband is released from prison and hunts her down, their dream becomes a nightmare when the husband shoots the man dead. In the waking world, the man's wife screams as he slumps over with a neat, round hole in his forehead.
Genre horror
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Christopher Rule
Reprinted in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #16 (March 1975)

4 page story "The Spice of Life!"

Synopsis The fantastically wealthy Ed Bean finds everything he has done in his life frightfully boring (even murder). He offers a million dollars to anyone who can come up with something he hasn't done, and a grotesque old man answers the ad, bringing him to deserted house where Bean will get to try something he never has before -- dying!
Genre horror
Pencils Al Eadeh
Inks Al Eadeh
Reprinted in Where Creatures Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)

2 page text story "Point of View"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #9 (June 1953) [as "Rudolph's Racket"]

4 page story "Blackmail!"

Synopsis A man gets rid of a elderly blackmailer by putting peppermint candies in his drink and telling him it was arsenic and letting fear go to work on the old man's heart.
Genre horror
Pencils Manny Stallman ?
Inks Manny Stallman ?

5 page story "Hang Until Dead!"

Genre horror