The Haunt of Fear #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Creep Course," a sorority girl attempts to ace her ancient civilizations class with charm and confidence—only to find her professor has a far more hands-on interest in the subject than she expected. With a mix of academic tension and creeping dread, she discovers that some lessons are best left unlearned.
In "No Silver Atoll!", a plane crashes into the ocean, stranding its survivors on a remote atoll where the captain claims to have a gun and a medical kit. As silver items begin vanishing and two passengers are killed in mysterious attacks, paranoia sets in—someone among them may be a werewolf. The tension mounts as the group struggles to survive, unaware that the real danger lies not in fangs, but in the silver nitrate hidden in the very kit meant to save them.
In "Country Clubbing!", a desperate convict fleeing the swamp stumbles upon a remote shack, only to find himself in a terrifying game of survival when a monstrous figure begins to pursue him with the very club he used to kill a woman. As the swamp closes in around him, each step deeper into the wilds brings new horrors—yet the relentless brute behind him never speaks, only follows, clutching the weapon with grim purpose. When the chase finally ends, the convict is left shattered, not by violence, but by a chilling revelation that leaves him forever changed.
In "The Whipping," a small town teeters on the edge of chaos as fear and prejudice ignite after Mexican-American families settle nearby. When a local vigilante group forms in response, tensions explode—especially when a man’s hatred for his daughter’s marriage to a Mexican leads to a violent, tragic act.
"You, Murderer" puts you in the chilling shoes of a man manipulated by a hypnotist after his wife leaves him, thrust into a deadly game where obedience becomes a murder weapon. Told in the unsettling second person, the story explores the slow unraveling of identity and guilt as you’re drawn into a crime you never intended to commit.
In "As Ye Sow...", a man's desperate act to reclaim his wife backfires in a chilling twist of fate. After hiring a killer to eliminate the man she's been seeing, he’s relieved when she returns to him—only to realize too late what he’s set in motion. The moment he sees the shadowed figure in the doorway, the truth crashes down.
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↩ Reprints Young Men #22 (1953), Haunt of Fear #23 (1954), Shock SuspenStories #14 (1954)
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