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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published June-July 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Albert B. Feldstein
Notes Contains Ray Bradbury adaptation, "The October Game".

Cover Details

Genre Horror
Pencils Albert B. Feldstein
Inks Albert B. Feldstein
Notes Contains Ray Bradbury adaptation, "The October Game".
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #9 (September 1994)

8 page Shock SuspenStories story "The October Game"

Synopsis A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween.
Genre Horror
Script Ray Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Notes Horror SuspenStory. Ray Bradbury adaptation.
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #9 (September 1994)

7 page Shock SuspenStories story "Came The Dawn!"

Synopsis A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #9 (September 1994)

1 page text story "Surgery!"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin
Letters Typeset

6 page Shock SuspenStories story "The Meddlers!"

Synopsis The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #9 (September 1994)

7 page Shock SuspenStories story "Carrion Death!"

Synopsis A man handcuffed to policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot. He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. He decides to lie down and allow the vultures to strip the corpse, but when he regains consciousness the vultures have already started in on him as well.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #9 (September 1994)