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Issue Details

Issue V3#5
Published December 1969
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.35 USD
Pages 52
Editing Carl Buros; Irving Fass; Ezra Jackson (art director)

Cover Details

Genre Horror
Pencils ?

5 page story "The Blackness of Evil"

Synopsis "A loathsome terror gripped the ground beneath the starless sky as the gruesome creatures of darkness spread an unspeakable horror...Ye-ch-h!"
Genre Horror
Pencils Larry Woromay
Inks Larry Woromay
Notes Rework of "Walpurgis!" from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #18 (April 1953)
Reprinted in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #V7#4 (November 1976)

5 page story "Blood bath"

Synopsis "An eerie tale that will curdle the core of your bloody nerve centers and leave you limp!...Warning, this is a real "shocker"!...Be "chicken" and never take a trip!" A frantic anti-LSD opus in which a group of acid-dropping groovers go on one almighty bad trip...
Genre Horror
Script Chic Stone ?
Pencils Chic Stone
Inks Chic Stone
Reprinted in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #2#4 (August 1970); Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #4#4 (June 1972); Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v8#4 (October 1974); Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#3 (July 1976);

6 page story "Dead Dummies"

Synopsis "From the fevered brain of a murderer grew an idea that turned into an army of horror."
Genre Horror
Notes Pre-code reprint with new title and art.
Reprinted in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #2#4 (August 1970); Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publishing, 1968 series) #v5#4 (June 1972); Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v9#1 (January 1978)

7 page story "The Slimy Mummy"

Synopsis "What foul and unnatural terror lurks beneath the layer of earth...waiting...waiting to crush you between its slimy fingers? This is a "spine-snapper"!"
Genre Horror
Script Chic Stone ?
Pencils Chic Stone
Inks Chic Stone
Reprinted in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#5 (September 1970); Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #V3#5 (October 1971); Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #V5#5 (September 1973)

6 page story "The Gruesome Garden"

Synopsis "The legend of the mandrake root is not to be laughed at. Oliver Caxton laughed and died horribly!..."
Genre Horror
Pencils ? (Iger Shop)
Inks ? (Iger Shop)
Notes reprinted in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#6 [as "The Bloody Things"]
Reprinted from Voodoo (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 Series) #3 (1952) [original title: "Plantation of Fear"]; Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v2#3 (June 1967)

7 page story "Experiment in Terror"

Synopsis "Your flesh will shrink and your bones quiver as you journey to the Human Zoo."
Genre Horror
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos
Notes reprinted in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#5 (September 1970); Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#6 (November 1971)
Reprinted from Haunted Thrills (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 series) #13 (January 1954)

8 page story "Death Dance"

Characters Pulah [Rulah]
Synopsis "From the eerie lush green jungle came the hairy thing followed by their queen embraced in the strange ritual of the death dance."
Genre Jungle
Pencils Matt Baker ?
Inks Matt Baker ?
Notes reprinted in Tales From the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #V3#1 (February 1971)
Reprinted from ?

5 page story "Dimension-Horror"

Genre Monster
Reprinted from ? (pre-code)