A convicted killer has a repeating dream of dying in the electric chair. Finally, the event is real and he is relieved the dreams have stopped in the peace of death... until he hears the warden summon his ghost from it's grave and back through the green door. He realizes that he is damned to an eternity of executions.
A thief by the name of Josiah Creech routinely steals headstones from a nearby cemetery. He rubs them off and resells them at his shop in town. One day he receives a customer that is insistent on purchasing a headstone right away. He instructs Creech that the headstone must be delivered and installed that same night, money is no object. Creech happily installs the headstone knowing full well that he will come back later to remove it for resale. At one point he turns around and the customer is gone. Creech is outraged that his time has been wasted and begins to remove the headstone. As he is working he begins to sink into the grave. He sinks lower and lower until he finds himself inside the coffin. He is shocked to see that the coffin belongs to the customer that walked into his shop earlier that evening. The corpse then announces that he will now share the headstone with Creech since he was so determined to obtain it for himself.
A wealthy man by the name of Paul Marno takes pleasure in boiling lobsters and watching them squirm in pain as the heat is increased. His fiancée Doris looks on in disgust as Marno displays his exuberance in watching the sea creatures suffer. She expresses her disgust to another houseboat guest by the name of Jim. The two express the fact that they have feelings for each other and plan to run away together. Paul Marno witnesses their cozy nature and becomes determined to get rid of his competition Jim. He invites Jim on a hunting expedition to retrieve more lobsters from the Sea. He even offers Jim $1000 dollars for the largest lobster he is able to capture. Jim readily agrees knowing that he needs the money to run away with Doris. Marno secretly plans to murder Jim by stabbing him wit a pitchfork while they are underwater. The two men set out to look for lobsters. At one point Marno is surrounded by a large group of lobsters that block his shot at stabbing Jim. The lobsters push Marno into an underwater spring filled with boiling water. They submerge Marno into the heated water until he is dead. The lobster revenge is complete
A scientist invents a cobalt bomb that results in monstrous mutations in a few individuals present at the test site. He hunts them down and shoots them, but when he awakens from the night's work and looks in the bathroom mirror, he sees a monstrous visage glaring back at him. He thinks that he must have been affected as well and uses the gun on himself. The shot wakes his son and wife, but the mother tells her boy it was probably a car backfiring and to go back to sleep. The boy asks his mother how dad will take the joke he played taping a monster picture onto his bathroom mirror.
Notes
"Half Man, Half...?" is altered for this reprint to change the man buying the information from Nostrum into an Agent of Hydra.
