Haunt of Fear #4 (1950)

Linda Cross takes her brother Paul south of the border for relaxation to forestall a nervous breakdown. Unfortunately for Linda, it happens anyway, and Paul gives in to his ghoulish desires.

The Camp was considered to be THE model concentration camp used by the Nazis. Now, the Gestapo Detachment had abandoned it and it was literally being destroyed by Allied aircraft with only the now blind Kanzler still there. Determined to make himself safe from the bombing, he decides to find safety in the gas chamber.....not the wisest move!

There once was a king who liked to eat and eat and eat. He ate all the food in the kingdom, leaving his people to starve. When they tried to take a little food for themselves, the King cut off the hands! So, one day, the royal chef had an idea. The King kept making a pig of himself, so the chef would treat him like a pig. That night, the chef's family had a very good meal: sausages! Mmmm.

Richard visits his brother, Charles, to steal from him and finds Charles working on a revolutionary new type of coffin that will let even the very poor have a decent funeral. It's sure to make a fortune in royalties! The coffin is finally completed just before Charles drops dead from a heart attack. Now the money from the coffin will be Richard's! He gets in the coffin to see what's so great about it. It begins playing music and eulogizing him, which is nice enough. But then, he's embalmed as the coffin makes its own way to the cemetery and buries itself. Not so nice.

This grim fairy tale relates the story of a prince who gets the king to pay him a yearly allowance of what he weighs in gold. In order to be as heavy as can be, he swallows lead shot to get his already fat frame close to almost 500 pounds. As he urges the carriage faster and faster to arrive at his new castle, the brakes are thrown suddenly and the shot explodes out of him.

This darn spaceship is infested with bugs! They've even eaten away the insulation on some crucial wires, causing the ship to crash-land on a strange planet. At least, mercifully, there don't seem to be any insects here. But then, the crewmen find themselves scooped up by a huge hand and dropped into a bowl. Make no mistake, the gigantic ant is not happy to find these "bugs" in its salad.

An expedition to a distant star system arrives after a 30 year trip to find that the star had exploded and wiped out its solar system before they had even left Earth. D'oh!

An expedition to a distant star system successfully completes the 30-year trip to find people already there. While the expedition was hurtling through space, faster-than-light travel was developed, cutting the trip to one year. D'oh!

After his father is killed by a vampire, a chemist comes up with a plan to sacrifice himself so that others may live. He drinks a radioactive substance that may be traced by a Geiger counter and leaves a note for his brother detailing the plan to use the instrument to track down the vampire after he has drained the isotope blood. Unfortunately for his plan, the chemist's brother turns out to be the vampire.

Every generation, a madwoman is conceived on the night of her parent's wedding who follows the tradition of murdering her newly-wed husband with an ax in the same house.

An excavation in Lebanon unearths a strange cube covered with inscriptions. The men who decipher the inscriptions discover that it is actually the "diary" of a huge alien child who visited Earth centuries ago. They read of her tragic encounters with humans that resulted in her accidentally crushing people and destroying cities. The story ends with her death at the hands of a knight. What a minute! That means she was the "dragon" slain by St. George!

In this grim fairy tale an old king finds a young girl to marry and is deeply in love with her but cannot offer her the physical relationship she needs, so she takes a lover. Three court ladies who are very jealous of her find out and inform the king. The king's honor has been insulted, and so his queen and her lover must pay with their lives, but the king truly loved her deeply and is heartbroken. He makes the three women who ruined his happiness pay by blinding one, deafening the other, and cutting the tongue out of the third.

Psychotic baseball players dismember a player from an opposing baseball team in revenge for his using poisoned cleats in a game and then use his body parts to play ball.

A murderer thinks he is like the character in Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart", imagining he hears a heartbeat in the walls, but after police examine the area they find his older brother's corpse. When the youngest brother admits to slaying the eldest brother for the family inheritance and burying the body in the cellar, the police dig it up, and it is revealed to be missing its heart.

Gloria was in a cab, running away from her husband Ralph...heading toward the train station and the train that would take her away from this man whom she thought was trying to poison her. Seated on the train, she imagined him at every turn, remembering the $25,000 insurance policies Ralph had taken out on them both, and then remembered that poison bottle he had brought home. A series of events following end when she awakens in her berth on the train, then sees Ralph with an attendant in a white coat, who takes her off to a nice house with bars on it so that Ralph can never get to her again!

A man marries a woman the townsfolk warn him away from because, after her previous five husbands sicken and die, they think she is a vampire. It turns out her child has a rare blood disorder and she has been performing transfusions upon the men as they slept at night. The man knows she isn't a vampire because he is in fact one, and he drains both her and the child's blood.

A chemist strings along a rich admirer of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde who is willing to pay to have such a personality altering formula recreated. The joke is on the chemist when he ingests the formula he comes up, thinking that it's a placebo, but it actually does work and he loses control of himself and murders his girlfriend.

Laura dreamed of being a famous painter, and years back her husband-to-be came by her studio to have his portrait painted. They fell in love, married, and moved to his planation home in Louisiana. In that home hung a portrait of her husband's French Baron relation, which haunted her, as did a room in the home that wouldn't open. Now, years later, she discovered a bottle of black ink in the bathroom for her husband's new beard, and when she was able to get the mystery door opened she found seven dead women lying there, and her husband, now with a blue beard and a razor in his hand.......

A doctor transplants a cat's nine lives gland into a derelict in order to make money in death-defying stunts. The derelict betrays the doctor in order to keep more of the money, but the doctor has the last laugh by realizing the derelict is miscounting the lives he has left to lose since the dead cat had already used one making eight, not nine left.

A woman with suicidal tendencies and the skeptical psychologist who loves her visit a swami who diagnoses her problem as stemming from her having witnessed the hanging of an obese man whose head popped right off the body releasing a 'decapitation Lamia' that has possessed her and, sadly, can only be removed by decapitation. She flees from the swami in terror, rushing down into the subway, where she finds herself thrown under the train wheels and the pursuing psychologist bursts into maniacal laughter as the Lamia possesses him.

A man in nineteenth century Paris is faced with the choice of paying a licensed undertaker money he does not have to bury his wife or turning her corpse over to medical students for dissection practice because of a new ordinance passed by the Commissioner of Health. He drops a body off in the evening at the medical college, and the following day uses the money he's received to buy food and clothes for his starving children and to bury his wife. The medical students realize that the body they've received is that of the Commissioner of Health.

A couple in financial difficulty recall a time when they picked up a jade statue in Hong Kong. The wife reads the text at the base of the statue that says it grants three wishes and she wishes for money. The husband remembers a story he once read called 'The Monkey's Paw' and tells her not to wish, but it's too late. He gets a call from his lawyer advising him to drive into town, which he does, and gets into a fatal accident which mangles his body and pays off life insurance to the wife. She hasn't read the story, so she asks the man who informs her of the insurance payout about it. He tells her, whatever you do, don't wish for your husband back as he will be mangled. She says she won't make the same mistake and wishes him back before the accident. Men bring in the casket and she gets her wish, but he is still dead, as he died of a heart attack moments before the accident. The distraught wife uses her last wish to wish her husband alive but he writhes in pain because his blood has been replaced with formaldehyde. She tries shooting him a rifle but it doesn't kill him so she grabs a craving knife and shops him up into tiny little pieces, but the pieces still pulse with life.

A marvel chess player in a small town shoots himself when they hold a parade and he is expected to remove his top hat to salute the flag. The top hat hides a Siamese twin head that accounted for his superior abilities at chess.

This grim fairy tale reveals the REAL reason Snow White got the poisoned apple was that she was a neat freak who was driving the seven dwarfs nuts.

A nephew murders his uncle for his money and winds up a prisoner in one of his ship-in-a-bottles.