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There she sits, calm, cold, serene! Life goes on about her... the world is unaware of the awful, unbelievable horror that lurks in its midst! It is moving... slowly but surely moving! And every day... every second... the crawling terror is coming closer... and closer... and closer... until...

—Narrator

Appearing in "The Return of the Monster"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Mr. Berger (First appearance)
  • Nina Frankenstein-Armstrong (First appearance)
  • Mr. Frankenstein (Nina's Father) (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Fanatics (First appearance)
    • Eric (First appearance; dies)
    • Two unnamed members (First appearance; dies)
  • Frankenstein's Monster (First appearance)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Realities:

Locations:

Synopsis for "The Return of the Monster"

A young writer travels to Europe wishing to discover the truth of the Frankenstein legend. He travels to a strange village where a young woman reveals herself as the the last living Frankenstein, and that her father had been kidnapped by agents of a foreign power who wish to revive and use the monster as a weapon. They head to Frankenstein Castle but arrive too late as the father has already been killed and the agents succeed in bringing back the monster. The revived monster kills the agents and the whole village before the surviving couple kill it with dynamite. The writer later marries the woman and they keep the monster's existence a secret.

Appearing in "The Deadly Dwarf!"

Featured Characters:

  • Wylie (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)

Antagonists:

  • Demon "Demo" (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Jensen Theatrical Enterprises (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
    • Mr. Jensen (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
    • Gloria (Mr. Jensen's Secretary) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
    • Several unnamed freelance performers (Only in flashback)
  • Unidentified Police Department (Main story and flashback)
    • Unnamed Police Officer (Main story and flashback)
    • Unnamed Detective (Main story and flashback)

Races and Species:

  • Humans (Main story and flashback)

Realities:

Locations:

Synopsis for "The Deadly Dwarf!"

A failed ventriloquist discovers his dummy can talk on his own. The dummy claims to be a dwarf and they make a deal on a partnership. They soon become a famous duo with the dummy using the deal for half of the money. The ventriloquist soon becomes too greedy and tries to kill the dwarf only to discover it's really is a living dummy and is murdered by him.

Appearing in "The Mask of the Mind!"

Featured Characters:

  • Scavenger (Dr. Benjamin Hill) (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Numerous unnamed constables

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Caretaker (Culvar Cemetery) (First appearance)
  • Sir Robert (Mentioned) (Deceased)

Races and Species:

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Synopsis for "The Mask of the Mind!"

A doctor uses a ugly mask as disguise for his work as graverobber. However after his final job he discovers his hideous deeds where reflected on his face as it's had taken the shape of the mask.

Appearing in "Don't Shake Hands with the Devil"

Featured Characters:

  • Jeremiah Pendergast (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Satan
  • Demons
    • Satan's Emissary (First appearance; dies)
    • Numerous unnamed demons

Other Characters:

  • Ms. Brooks (Pendergast's Secretary) (First appearance; voice only)
  • Julius Caesar (Invoked)
  • Death (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Realities:

Locations:

Items:

  • Manuscript of Misery (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Don't Shake Hands with the Devil"

Satan sends an emissary to a horror story publisher so that he will read the scroll of suffering and be transported to Hell as a living man. Satan wants his soul because the stories he publishes turn people away from evil, but he cannot collect it until he is dead, so he puts the curse of Satan upon the publisher to kill the first person he sees (as then he will be executed for the crime), and sends him back. But Satan forgets that the first person the publisher sees upon his return to Earth will be the emissary, and when the publisher strangles him, the body disappears so there is no criminal prosecution.

Appearing in "The Case of the Cat"

Featured Characters:

  • Rebecca's Husband

Supporting Characters:

  • Richard (Rebecca's Brother) (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Becca (First appearance) (Richard's Cat)

Other Characters:

  • Fuller (First appearance)
  • Rebecca (First appearance) (Only in flashback) (Deceased)
  • Unnamed Doctor

Races and Species:

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Synopsis for "The Case of the Cat"

After being responsible for the death of his abusive wife Rebecca her husband agreed to watch her brother's cat, Becca, named after her. While suffering from ailurophobia, fear of cats, the widow slowly went mad and struck the cat with a fireiron before passing out.

He awoke days later in a mental asylum after he confessed to the murder of his wife.

Appearing in "The Witch's Son!"

Featured Characters:

  • Bela (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Marja the Witch (First appearance; dies)
  • "Marja's Son" (First appearance; dies; construct)
  • Zelda (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Numerous unnamed citizens of Tsigane

Other Characters:

  • Death (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)

Races and Species:

Realities:

Locations:

Synopsis for "The Witch's Son!"

A boy releases bears from their cages in order to save an old woman from being burned at the stake as a witch, but she actually is a witch, and rewards him with a protective spell.

Appearing in "The Terror That Creeps"

Featured Characters:

  • Russell Sterett (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Kroho Sahk (First appearance)
  • Kohb-Mali (First appearance) (Only in flashback)

Antagonists:

  • Sphinx (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
  • Set (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
  • Ta-La-Bokh (First appearance) (Only in flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Thoth (Vision or hallucination)
  • Isis (Vision or hallucination)
  • Ra (Vision or hallucination)

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Synopsis for "The Terror That Creeps"

A man tries in vain to convince the world that the Sphinx is slowly crawling to the edge of the desert where it will regain its full power to fly and commit atrocities in the name of the evil god Set.

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