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Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

Character(s): Suzy Carson

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First Line: Just think!!

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Notes: On inside front cover.
Ad for EC Annuals.

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Genres: crime

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Dead Right!

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Madame Vorna (fortune teller); J. Flag Marson (prison warden, mention only); Mr. Clayton (Cathy's boss); Cathy Finch Marno (office clerk, waitress, death); Charles Marno (villain, Cathy's husband, death)

Synopsis: A fortune teller predicts to a woman that a man who wants to marry her, but she finds repulsive, is going to inherit twenty-five thousand dollars and die shortly afterward, so she marries him. What the fortune teller doesn't tell her is that she wins the twenty-five thousand dollars as a prize, and when she tries to walk out on the slob, he murders her and inherits her money then dies in the electric chair.

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Under Cover!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Suzy Carson (death); Ed Fenton (newspaper editor); Sam Masters (newspaperman, death); Grand Master of the Black Vigilante Society (villain); two un-named phony FBI agents (villains); un-named Society members (villains)

Synopsis: When Sam Masters sees a secret society whip a girl to death he tries to contact the F.B.I. before they can catch him.

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Notes: Letters from D. A. Johnson, Brian Moody, Oat Willy, Andy Terwilleger, Joe MacAvoy, Dan Kroha, Dave Hall.

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Notes: Prose from Ronald S. Rogowski, Kevin Otten; fan art from George Hopper, John David Alward, Peter A. Stone II.

Not So Tough!

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Lieutenant Robert Arden (Astro-Navigator, later Rocket-Man 3rd Class, death); Sergeant Coogan (ship crewman, death); Seeley (crewman, death); Vice-Commander Philip Forbes (death); Commander Horace Bergman (villain, death)

Synopsis: A space commander who is as tough as nails on his crew is reduced to soft putty in the grip of a large gravitational force.

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Pages: 6

Sugar 'N Spice 'N...

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Johnny (Margaret's brother, death); Margaret (Johnny's sister, death); a witch [aka The Crab] (villain)

Synopsis: A brother and sister lose their ball in the yard of an old woman whom they referred to as "The Old Crab". She eventually gave them the ball back, but warned them to stay away. On Halloween night, the two play a prank on this woman, with fatal results!

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Genres: crime

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Beauty and the Beach!

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Mary Milton (John's wife); Ginger Fullman (Percy's wife, death); Cedric Abels (publicity man); Tom Simmens (advertising director); John Milton (villain, plastics factory worker); Percy Fullman (villain)

Synopsis: Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. One encases his wife in plastic while wearing her bathing suit, and the other broils his wife alive under forty sun lamps.

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The Bribe!

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Captain Donaldson; Jean Wilson (Frank's daughter); Ted (Jean's fiancee); Frank Wilson (villain, City Fire Inspector, death); Foster (villain, former City Fire Inspector); Nick Cusco (villain, Blue Swan Club owner)

Synopsis: A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations. He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening, but what he doesn't know is that she and her fiancee have eloped and didn't stay for the show.

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Notes: Letters from John Miller, Warren Standiford, Steven J. Snodgrass, Tom Robb, Robert Tone.

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Notes: Fan art by Mike Husted, Benoit Trioux, Alpha Raindance, Emily Haddad, Mike Sholtis, Prof. J. B. Lee (with letter).

Infiltration

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Phil Brady (Flying Saucer Bureau employee, death); Betty Curtiss (villain, a Martian, Shaw's private secretary); Colonel Wayne Shaw (villain, a Martian, Pentagon Flying Saucer Bureau employee)

Synopsis: This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down.

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The Small Assassin!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Alice (death); David (Alice's husband, death); Dr. Jeffers; David and Alice's un-named baby (villain, eventual death)

Synopsis: A mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. She's right. And the doctor, who brought the child into the world, after finding her husband dead as well, decides to take care of matters......in his own way!

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Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

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Piecemeal

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Sidney (a naturalist); Eric (villain, Sidney's brother, Sally's lover, death); Sally (villain, Sidney's wife, death)

Synopsis: A woman plots to give her naturalist husband an overdose of sleeping pills so that she can be with his younger brother. Before he passes, he acquires a large shark and places it in their outdoor pool in which the wife regularly swims.

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The Assault!

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Mrs. Cartwright (Lucy's mother); Mr. Cartwright (Lucy's father); Hodges (town derelict, death); George (villain, Lucy's lover); Lucy Cartwright (villain, death)

Synopsis: Lucy, who was spending hours away from home on a regular basis, comes home one night and claims that old Hodges kidnapped and raped her, when, in fact, she had been with her lover. However, when the old man is killed and Lucy spurns her lover, he does the only honorable thing in his mind: kill her!

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Penciller(s): Derek Malone; Andrew T. Raub; Kurt Krause; Elliott Kazan

Inker(s): Derek Malone; Andrew T. Raub; Kurt Krause; Elliott Kazan

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Genres: crime, horror

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Notes: Letters from Andrew T. Raub (with illustration), Frank X. Mattson III.

Suicide

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Genres: crime

Character(s): un-named old man (janitor, death); Patterson (villain, death)

Synopsis: Patterson had to kill the old janitor after he had broken into a joint in order to keep the man from identifying the criminal. However, Patterson tried to make his crime look like suicide, but the plan backfired when the bullet to the old man's head went into a nearby boiler and scalded the criminal to death!

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The Arrival

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Grozo (Martian); Zkorl (Martian); Spdork (Martian); unnamed Pharaoh of Egypt (flashback); Christopher Columbus (flashback); Napoleon Bonaparte (flashback); Thomas Edison (flashback); Orville Wright (flashback); Wilbur Wright (flashback)

Synopsis: Ninety-five thousand years after man destroys himself with nuclear weapons, the evolved rats develop space travel and meet their Martian neighbors.

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Pages: 6

Seep No More!

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Mrs. Monahan (Finner's landlady); Irene Lauton (actress, death); two un-named detectives; Mr. Finner (villain, boarder)

Synopsis: Every morning, after a man stabs a woman to death and stashes her body in the attic, he sees a huge bloodstain spreading across his ceiling. He tries to cover it up with paint, but every morning it's there. He even puts a bucket on the floor to collect the blood, and it appears half full to him when the suspicious detectives listen to his confession and tell him there is no stain and no blood in the bucket.

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

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The October Game

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Louise Wilder (Mitch's wife); Marion Wilder (Louise and Mitch's daughter, death); Helen; Mitch Wilder (villain)

Synopsis: A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween.

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Came the Dawn!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Cathy Maxwell (death); Bob Ames; un-named criminally insane girl (villain)

Synopsis: A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.

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Genres: crime, horror

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Notes: Letters from Mark Jarasitis, John Miller, Warren Standiford, Kevin Koleyan

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Penciller(s): Jesse Landrum; William Pearson; Jim Bonner

Inker(s): Jesse Landrum; William Pearson; Jim Bonner

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Genres: horror, science fiction

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Notes: Letters from Jesse Landrum (with illustration), Frank X. Mattson III, Jim Bonner (with illustration)

The Meddlers!

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Dr. Conrad Rivers (research chemist, death); Mr. Kearns (groery store owner, death); the widow Jones (death); Jed (death); Enos (death); Martha (death)

Synopsis: The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.

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Carrion Death

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Genres: horror

Character(s): un-named State Trooper (death); un-named bank robber (villain, death)

Synopsis: A man handcuffed to policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot. He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. He decides to lie down and allow the vultures to strip the corpse, but when he regains consciousness the vultures have already started in on him as well.

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Genres: horror

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The Sacrifice

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Jonathan Fielding (death); Paul Nichols (villain, witness to Jonathan's murder, blackmailer); Gloria Fielding (villain, Jonathan's wife); James Reed (villain, insurance salesman, death)

Synopsis: A woman manipulates a man into killing her husband by pretending to be in love with him, while she and her lover work out a scheme whereby he claims to be a witness to the killing and blackmails the two of them into letting him sleep with the woman. She carries on this act, pretending to be progressively degraded and begging for salvation, until the dupe finally writes out a confession implicating only himself in the murder and swallows a bottle of poison. She then gleefully regales the dying man the details of the con.

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...So shall ye reap!

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Murray Vorhees; Wilma Vorhees; Kenneth Vorhees (villain, the Vorhee's son, death); Hicky (villain, gang member)

Synopsis: A young man sitting in the electric chair reflects on the events of his youth while his parents are sitting at home do the same. The parents see their past actions in a positive light, but their son sees things from a different perspective.

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Genres: crime

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Notes: Letters from Jim Davis, Warren Standiford.

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Penciller(s): Sam Rowley; Alex Bebout; ?; Rick Olsen

Inker(s): Sam Rowley; Alex Bebout; ?; Rick Olsen

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Genres: horror, science fiction

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Operation!

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Genres: crime

Character(s): un-named anaesthetist; un-named Chief Surgeon; un-named Generalissimo (villain, death); un-named members of the Secret Police (villains)

Synopsis: A dictator is in the operating room, having gas administered as usual, with the doctor ready to operate. The members of the Secret Police were all around the room, making sure the Leader was safe. Suddenly, aman in a bowler hat came in and grabbed the anaestheist, claiming he was trying to kill the Leader, and not realizing that this led the gas being accidently turned on full.....the end result: the Leader blew up!

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Home Run!

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Doctor Muller (atomic scientist, absorbed into a Martian); Doctor Caxton (Muller's supervisor); a Martian (villain)

Synopsis: Astronauts are approaching Mars when one of their number admits to them that he is really a Martian who designed the rocket in order to return home after his crashed. The other astronauts think he has lost his mind and attempt to seize his gun, which discharges, killing him. They land on Mars and notice that the body has regained its true form and realize the creature was telling them the truth and that hostile Martians are now waiting outside to absorb their bodies and return to Earth as Martian infiltrators.

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Sweetie-Pie

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Philip Garson (reporter for the Consolidated Press Service, death); Sally Garson (Philip's wife, death); un-named editor of the Consolidated Press Service; O'Hara (State Patrol officer); Eddie (Consolidated Press reporter); a Ghoul (villain)

Synopsis: Philip, a reporter, is put on a story involving people who have been involved in car wrecks and the bodies displaying evidence of puncture marks on their throats and all blood drained from their bodies. The problem is: not all of the victims were found....just 4 of 16 bodies total. Soon, Philip and his new bride are involved in an accident, and he learns the true fate of all the victims: a ghoul has set up roadside hazards to procure fresh meat.

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First Line: What?!! ...You don't have the complete Crypt?

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Ad for The Complete Tales from the Crypt.

Collect Them All!

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Notes: On back cover.