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Cover: Mel Keefer
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Tales of Horror #8

Dec 1953 · Minoan Publishing Corp. · 0.10 USD
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An anthology of horror tales featuring "Pool of the Skeletons," in which a weekend house party becomes a supernatural nightmare when ghostly skeletal apparitions terrorize the guests; and "The Witness," in which a man witnessing a murder is silenced by an unseen killer, followed by scientist John Reid's discovery of a giant snake emerging from New York waters that he believes is connected to an experimental serum he created to combat the creature's spread across Manhattan.

Contains 5 stories
The Slasher!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense

In "The Slasher!" from Tales of Horror #8 (1953), a timid bookkeeper escapes his mundane reality by imagining himself as the daring heroes he reads about in the papers—until a real-life slasher begins terrorizing the city, forcing him to confront the line between fantasy and fear.

Pool of the Skeletons
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Witness!
3 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Death Ship
1 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Big Snake!
8 pp · Horror-Suspense

In "The Big Snake!", a desperate scientist's experiment spirals out of control when a serum, combined with blood from a different creature, unleashes a monstrous serpent capable of growing to immense size—and mimicking the intelligence of its donor. After the creature swallows its creator, it evolves into a towering, cunning force of destruction, turning its sights on New York City.

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CGC 6.0 · 2 in census $391
CGC 5.5 · 6 in census $335
CGC 5.0 · 9 in census $274
CGC 4.5 · 6 in census $224
CGC 4.0 · 11 in census $206
CGC 3.5 · 12 in census $190
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CGC 3.0 · 12 in census $170
CGC 2.5 · 15 in census $152
CGC 2.0 · 7 in census $114
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CGC 1.0 · 2 in census $67
CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $51
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Full credits

artist Bill Molno
cover pencils, inks Mel Keefer

Reprints

↩ Reprints Tales of Terror #1 (1952), Tales of Horror #3 (1952), The Purple Claw #1 (1953)

Reprinted in Tales from the Tomb #1 (1975), Haunted Horror #34 (2018)

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