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Eerie, #1

Published: May-June 1951

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Eerie #1

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Issue Contents:
King of the Living Dead
1 page horror-suspense
Story Notes

Inside cover features original art promoting each of the four stories.

The Werewolf of Warsham Manor
Story 1 7 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

Robert Warsham, last of the Warsham clan, hurries to his uncle’s death bed and learns about a family curse. In an experiment gone wrong decades ago, the scientist partner of Vincent Warsham was turned into a were-beast and killed. When the members of the Warsham family turn 45 years of age, the wolfman stalks and kills them in revenge.

Story Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

King of the Living Dead
Story 2 7 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

In Budapest Adrina Rollande, bride of Walter Austen, is kidnapped by a zombie and brought to an underground cavern. Austen manages to follow unnoticed through the sewer system. They meet an eons old madman who is creating an undead army and plans to conquer the surface world. The courageous Austen is able to collapse the cavern causing the madman and his zombie servants to be sucked down into the sewers where they all drown.

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Story Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Cover story.

The Subway Horror!
Story 3 8 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

Harry Horton pushes his emotionally and physically abusive wife onto subway tracks killing her. The guilt makes him see her mangled corpse taunting him causing him to panic and fall off the roof of the building he lives in. It's later revealed that it wasn't his wife he had killed but a woman that was wearing his wife's coat.

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Story Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Original title: "The Strange Case of Henpecked Harry."

Double Trouble
Story 4 2 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

Hank Bache greets Rance Macklin at the station. Rance had come to Africa to work, but Hanks hates the jungle and desperately wants to leave. He notices that he and Rance look alike and finds out Rance has a huge mansion back home he doesn't want to go back to. Desperate to get out of Africa, Hank kills Rance with a poisonous snake and then heads to his mansion to assume his life. While at the mansion, the remains of Rance's murdered fiance is discovered in the attic and Hank is convicted of the crime of her murder.

Story Notes

Has a panel of art depicting Hank killing Rance with a venomous snake.

The Monster from the Pit
Story 5 7 pages horror-suspense
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Czerny and Gruszy, two cops of Transylvanian descent, recognize a killer’s spree as the work of the Grahku, a supernatural werewolf-like fiend. They read up on the legend and find a means to destroy the monster. By putting a charm on a certain corpse in the cemetery the Grahku will be stopped forever. But Czerny learns too late that Gruszy is the Grahku.