Shock SuspenStories #9

In "Came The Dawn!" from Shock SuspenStories #9 (1953), a man’s growing unease over a mysterious girl in the woods takes a chilling turn when his girlfriend becomes the latest victim—leaving him to wonder if the woman he met was truly the threat he feared.

In "The Meddlers!" from Shock SuspenStories #9 (1953), a small town’s fear turns deadly when its doctor is driven out for his forbidden experiments. When the townspeople destroy his lab, his failed creations merge in the sewers—growing into something monstrous that turns the town’s paranoia into its own undoing.

In "Carrion Death!" from Shock SuspenStories #9 (1953), a man bound to a corpse by handcuffs struggles through a merciless desert, desperate to survive. With no way to cut himself free and the dead man's hand still clinging to his, he makes a grim choice—lying down to let vultures consume the corpse, only to wake and find them already feeding on him.