Appearing in "The Spider Waits"
Featured Characters:
- Sven (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Mr. O'Toole
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Lady-Spider
Other Characters:
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Spider Waits"
Sven is a factory worker who is charged with the task of keeping his workplace free of spiders. Unfortunately, Sven suffered a harrowing incident as a child and is deathly afraid of them. As an adult however, he manages to overcome his fear and takes great delight in killing every spider he can find. After work, he meets a woman at a bar who pays him ten dollars to clean the spiders out of her parlor. When he arrives at her house, he realizes that the lady is actually a spider-woman who traps Sven inside of a gigantic web.
Appearing in "In Little Pieces"
Featured Characters:
- Ben Maijus (Apparent death)
Supporting Characters:
- Verna Maijus (Ben's Wife)
Other Characters:
- Winstead Company (Mentioned)
- Walter Hothorn (Photo) (Death)
- Norton-Bries
- Harvey Mayberry (Photo) (Death)
- Robert Putnam (one of Ben's bosses) (First appearance; dies)
- Frank Werner (Ben's co-worker)
- Mr. J. Norton (one of Ben's bosses) (Apparent death)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- United States of America
- Silver Falls
- Norton-Bries
- Silver Falls
- United States of America
- Earth
Synopsis for "In Little Pieces"
A man finds he has the power to kill people by tearing photos of them. He decides to get rid of his shrew wife by tearing her photo but after doing it without even glancing at it, his recently fearful wife tells him that she has been trying to please him lately so she replaced her photo with one of him.
Appearing in "The Curse Of Makhe-Sof"
- Appearances not yet listed
Synopsis for "The Curse Of Makhe-Sof"
Pharaoh Makhe-Sof cursed his piramid tomb so it only appears every one thousand years and everybody who enters dies. When a modern greedy man kills two explorers to get the tomb's treasure Makhe-Sof ghost curses him to become a living mummy and guard the tomb for the next thousand years.
Appearing in "The Red Face"
Featured Characters:
- Maurice Vallou
Supporting Characters:
- Claude Vallou
- Cecile Vallou
- Charles Raveau
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Babaro
- Undead Stage Coach Driver
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Red Face"
A man arranges for a rival to be murdered at Mardi Gras, but instead of meeting the assassin in a Devil costume, he gets hauled away by the real Devil.
Appearing in "The Drop of Water"
Featured Characters:
- Albert (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Albert's Unnamed College Professor (Only in flashback)
- Crying Statue (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Midgard Serpent (Statue)
- Loki, The God of Fraud and Mischief (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Frost Giants (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Austria (Only in flashback)
- Vienna (Only in flashback)
- University of Vienna (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed Park (Only in flashback)
- Vienna (Only in flashback)
- Austria (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Statue's Tear
Synopsis for "The Drop of Water"
The tear from a statue turns out to be the universal solvent.
Appearing in "The Man Who Vanished!"
Featured Characters:
- Willis Striker (Apparent death)
Supporting Characters:
- Billings
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Old Man
Other Characters:
- Jud (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- Catskill Mountains
- Tarryville
- Catskill Mountains
- New York
- United States of America
Synopsis for "The Man Who Vanished!"
An evil old man in a cabin tends plants who used to be people.
Notes
- "The Spider Waits" is reprinted in Fear #11.
- "In Little Pieces" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #21.
- "The Red Face" is reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #18.
- "A Drop of Water" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #21.
- "The Man Who Vanished!" is reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #18.