Shock Suspenstories #1

In "¡Cobarde!", a young man stands before a firing squad, condemned for cowardice in battle, his fate sealed by a court-martial. As the moment of execution nears, his father, the commanding colonel, delivers a final, devastating lie—telling his son the rifles are loaded with blanks, so he may die with honor.

In "¡Los monstruos!", a quiet town on Earth becomes the unexpected refuge for a strange new arrival: a child who looks just like any other human, yet is the product of an alien species' unsettling method of reproduction. As the community grapples with the presence of this seemingly innocent stranger, the line between fear and understanding begins to blur—especially when the child's true nature remains hidden in plain sight.

In "¡La alfombra!", Conrad and his friend Reggie venture into the deep woods for a hunting trip, seeking a grizzly bear to prove their skill. While Reggie voices his disgust at Cartwright’s practice of turning slain beasts into rugs, Conrad finds himself alone one night after killing his prize—and then hears something moving in the dark.

In "¡Sin salida!", a woman’s calculated plan to escape a burdensome marriage backfires in the most chilling way when her new lover accidentally locks himself in the same cellar she once used to stage her husband’s demise—leaving him to suffer the same fate she once pretended to endure. Written with sharp, suspenseful pacing, the story unfolds in a tense, claustrophobic spiral where the past refuses to stay buried.

In "Deja de deshojar la margarita," a crew of space explorers sets down on a lush, alien world only to find its flora far more dangerous than they imagined—when a seemingly innocent game of "She loves me... She loves me not..." turns deadly. The story unfolds with quiet dread as the planet’s sentient plants reveal a chilling intelligence, turning a simple childhood rhyme into a matter of life and death.

In "¡Los patriotas!", a harrowing drama set during a military parade honoring Korean War veterans, a blind man is brutally attacked by a mob when he fails to salute the flag—his moment of silence mistaken for treason in a climate of rising fear and fervor. The story unfolds with quiet dread, exposing the dangerous cost of blind patriotism and the fragility of justice in the face of mob rule.

In "¡Halloween!", a new matron at an orphanage stumbles upon a cruel secret: the manager has been embezzling funds meant for the children. When he tries to silence her, the kids—silent but sharp—decide to teach him a lesson under the cover of Halloween night.

In "¡El culpable!", a prejudiced sheriff pins a murder on a Black man using a false witness, then carries out a brutal execution in the woods, claiming the man tried to escape. The story unfolds with tense, unflinching focus on injustice and the weight of a lie that becomes law.

In "¡El gran chasco!", a lonely broadcast technician finds himself drawn to a mysterious signal from a planet eighty light years away—only to have his dream of interstellar romance crash into reality when the woman from the transmission arrives in a rocketship… towering over him at 200 feet tall.

In "¡Un buen partido!", a brutal prank turns deadly when a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker, then traps him in a hollow log to be chopped through—just as his wife, Liz, is next in line. The story unfolds with chilling precision, blending grim folklore and raw tension in a remote logging camp where survival hinges on a twisted game of chance.

In a near-future world where marriage licenses require renewal every three years, a man hires a woman to be his wife for the term—no intimacy, just appearances—only to find her unexpectedly falling for him. When she reveals her plan to extend their marriage by claiming she’s pregnant, he delivers a stunning truth: he’s a robot, and her role was never about love, but about maintaining a human front for high-stakes business deals.

In "¡Golpe bajo!", a desperate fight promoter pushes his last-ditch boxer to the limit, only to find himself on the wrong side of a gruesome twist. After a stolen drug leaves him seemingly dead, he wakes in a police morgue—his body violated, his insides gone, and the cold truth of his fate staring back from the table.

In "¡Odio!", a man drawn into a violent act of hate confronts a shattering truth when his mother reveals he was adopted—and his real parents were Jewish. The revelation forces him to reckon with the fire he helped ignite, not just in a house, but in his own sense of self.

In "A flor de piel," Captain Limpfort takes a strange job ferrying a furrier to a distant planet, only to uncover a horrifying truth: the aliens there harvest human skin for their own fashion—turning the tables on the furrier’s cruel trade. Written by a noted sci-fi voice and illustrated with sharp, unsettling detail, the story unfolds with chilling precision, turning a simple mission into a nightmare of irony and dread.

In "Un fiambre muy sabroso," a man’s chilling plan to hide his wife’s murder unravels when his friend’s dinner invitation takes a horrifying turn—after a single bite, the truth about the meat on the plate comes to light. The story unfolds with quiet dread, building tension around a secret kept in a meat locker and a meal that’s far too familiar.

In "¡Acierto mortal!", a woman heeds a fortune teller’s cryptic warning and marries a man she finds repulsive, only to discover too late that the prediction was a trap woven from greed and deception. As fate twists around her, she must confront a marriage built on lies, where love and money collide in a deadly game with no clear winner.

In "Una vieja muy dulce," a brother and sister cross paths with the reclusive old woman they call "The Old Crab," after their ball rolls into her yard. When she returns it with a chilling warning, they decide to prank her on Halloween—only to find their joke has a far darker consequence than they ever imagined.