Shock SuspenStories #3 (1952)

A bigot sheriff arrests a black man for the death of a white woman based on the testimony of a man who turns out to be the killer. The sheriff executes the suspect in the woods and claims he made a break for it.

The Chief was having serious stomach issues with his appendix, so he was taken by his buddy to see an old quack doctor, who supposedly fixed the crook up. And fixed him he did.......although the doc was murdered to shut him up, the doc had the last laugh, when, at 10pm, the time-bomb the doc had sewn into the Chief's belly exploded!

Public Enemy Ben Troy, battered though he was, manages to get out of bed, while under guard outside his hospital room, and make his way to the window in order to effect an escape. Imagine his surprise when he jumps out the window thinking he is on the 2nd Floor and discovers he was actually in Room 819!

A broadcast technician falls in love with a woman whose transmission he picks up from another planet, some eighty light years away. But when she comes to him in a rocketship, Bart discovers that she stands about 200 feet high!

A trapper moves a rival's trap hoping the man will step in it and die so that he can take over his territory. He does step in it, but his desire for revenge is so strong that he chews through his own ankle in order to kill the guilty party before he expires.

A little girl murders her drunken father and frames her uncaring mother for the crime so that she can go live with her nice aunt.

A community is up in arms when Mexican-Americans move to town and form a vigilante group to deal with them. However, one of the bigots murders his own daughter when she marries a Mexican.

A story told in first person about the victim a hypnotist picks to do his dirty work for a killing after his wife leaves him for another man.

A husband hires a contract killer to trail his wife and murder the man she meets. The woman reconsiders her affair, decides to call it off, and returns to her husband. The husband is glad to have her back before he remembers what he's done. He sees the figure in the door and the flash of the gun. The last thing he ever hears is his wife begging him not to die.

A man cannibalizes his new bride in order to survive being stranded at sea.

A mob beats to death a priest when the man refuses to betray the confession of a killer.

A man's conscience bothers him so much after he strangles a woman that he has an uncontrollable urge to confess the deed to anyone in earshot.

A detective arrests the man burglar who murdered his wife when she surprised him, and, after a brutal beating that hospitalizes him, continues to hound him in the hospital about the death he will receive in the electric chair. The man fixates on his vengeance to such a great deal that the killer flees the hospital and is struck by a subway car. The detective is tortured by the uncertainty of whether the killer burned by the third rail as he should have or if the train struck him first.

An evil Siamese twin murders his brother's wife, but the state does not execute him as it would mean the death of the good one. The good one finally commits suicide to halt the evil of the other.

A college student wants to join a frat so he makes up a story about a professor they don't like being a communist in order to get him fired.

A mob beat a vagrant to death for the rape of a sixteen year old girl that the town sheriff has been violating.

A newspaper columnist murders his gangster friend to get his wife and frames an innocent man for the crime through the power of his words.

A farmer tries to molest a retarded girl he keeps to work on the farm as a servant. She tells him that she's got a boyfriend that she sees in the evening. She goes out into the field to the scarecrow. The farmer gets the idea of disguising himself as the scarecrow so he can get what he wants from the girl. The farmer's wife is awakened by the sound of their love-making and goes out to the field with a pitchfork. When the girl tells the wife about her boyfriend, the wife tries to demonstrate to her that it's only straw by repeatedly stabbing the scarecrow with the pitchfork.

Boris Karloff murders all of his Hollywood contacts after he has been typecast in pictures.

An assassin unknowingly pursues his mark to the backstage of a theater and kills the man just before the curtain rises. It turns out that the assassin has walked in on the opening scene of a play about President William McKinley and the man who assassinated him!

A diamond thief surgeon cuts open his two goons to smuggle diamonds into the country in their bodies. When he gets a big one worth two hundred fifty thousand he tells the men he will operate on both of them, but place the diamond in only one so that they will not be tempted to disappear. The doctor sends them a note saying he will be delayed because he knows that this will play on their greed and they will turn on each other. They kill each other, but the doctor did not place the stone in either of them but himself.

A poor girl knows her father will never be able to afford to buy a Cadillac, so she murders her mother and swears in court that the father did it, so after he is executed he gets his long sought after ride in a Cadillac hearse.

A husband is betrayed by his wife and funeral director when they plot to commit fraud to collect on his life insurance policy for his own murder. They plan to make him appear to be the victim of a mugging and then disappear in South America for a year. When his wife doesn't show with the money, he returns and they have him arrested and he ends up hanging for his own murder.

A cop kills a man with a bowling ball in a bag thinking it's a head.

A man commits murder attempting to acquire enough money to win back his wife's affections. He doesn't know that she and her lover have already made a plot to run him down. When they manage to hit him with the car, they are pleased to find that his wallet is flush with cash.