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Welcome to Adventures into Terror Vol. 1
(Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 12 pages

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The Thing in the Cave!
(Table of Contents: 2)

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The Monster Awakes
(Table of Contents: 3)

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The Unknown Partner
(Table of Contents: 4)

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The Ant World
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Rule inks, possibly aided by George Klein, per Nick Caputo, January 2020. Previous indexer credited Sekowsky.

The Man Who Looked at Death
(Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages

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Won’t You Step into My Parlor…? / The Strangers! / No Escape! / The Creeping Vine!
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Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

The Stranger
(Table of Contents: 8)

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  • Genre:horror-suspense
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A scientist invents a formula for eternal life, but it doesn't work and produces monsters instead.
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The Creeping Vine
(Table of Contents: 9)

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A story motif similar to "Little Shop of Horrors"

No Escape
(Table of Contents: 10)

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A poor man who shares identical looks with a rich man murders his butler and acquires his job after donning a disguise in order to study the mannerisms of the wealthy man. After completing his study, he murders the wealthy man and takes his place. He finds out that the man had a history of mental imbalance after his cousin and lawyer commit him to an insane asylum.
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The Storm
(Table of Contents: 11)

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People can only leave the house of terrors upon the hill when new victims seek shelter from the storm in order to replace them.
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I Stalk by Night!/House of Horror!/Could the Girl I Loved Really Be One of the Living Dead?/Imagine Being Trapped in a Lonely Graveyard I Was!
(Table of Contents: 12)

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Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

I Stalk by Night!
(Table of Contents: 13)

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:W-who are you? W-what do you want of me?
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When a judge dons a pair of black gloves that belonged to a serial killer, he finds that he cannot remove them and is forced to commit murder.
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Possible Klein inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Sekowsky.

House of Horror
(Table of Contents: 14)

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Legends of werewolves are as old as time!
  • Keywords:werewolves
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A man traveling through the forest comes upon a house occupied by werewolves.
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Klein inks per Nick Caputo, January 2020. Previous indexer credited Colan.

The Isle of No Return
(Table of Contents: 15)

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Reprint information from the Atlas Tales website.

Murder at Midnight!
(Table of Contents: 16)

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There's the first stroke of midnight! In a few seconds I'll see what goes on in a cemetery at night!
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A grave-digger ladies' man is pursued by the spirits of the women he drove to suicide by his love 'em and leave 'em ways.
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The Living Dead
(Table of Contents: 17)

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Can the dead live again? Can they come back from the howling, ghoul-ridden darkness of eternity and plague the living?
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A man drains the blood of young women and uses the hormones to prolong his life.
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The Torture Room!/The Living Brain!/Pawn of the Vampire!/The Thing in the Water!
(Table of Contents: 18)

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Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

The Brain!
(Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 6 pages

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A warped Nazi scientist, sentenced to death, has an assistant dig up his body, remove his head and keep it alive in his laboratory. He makes plans for world domination.
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Follow-up story in Adventures into Terror #6.

Hands of Murder
(Table of Contents: 20)

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A young woman fears that her late sister has come back from the grave to kill her.
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The Torture Room
(Table of Contents: 21)

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Siegfried Mauller (Nazi commandant of concentration camp)
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The Nazi commander of a concentration camp is captured by the prisoners and placed in their secret torture room.
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Vampire Brats
(Table of Contents: 22)

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A nurse gets a job at an infants' home where all the babies seem just a little different.
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The Thing in the Water
(Table of Contents: 23)

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A fish enthusiast encounters a menacing "water monster" from Atlantis when he brings home a new breed of guppies.
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The monster explains that Atlanteans mutated from humans to water creatures when their continent sank beneath the sea.

Hitch-Hiker!/Find Me!/The Eye of Doom!/The Man Who Was Death!
(Table of Contents: 24)

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Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Sidebar art by Don Rico (taken from interior panel), Basil Wolverton and (possibly) Burgos. Woman's face by Joe Maneely.

The Man Who Was Death!
(Table of Contents: 25)

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Find Me!
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Rule inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Rico.

The Clock Strikes!
(Table of Contents: 27)

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The Hitchhiker
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Per Nick Caputo: "This looks like a number of hands were involved. Page 2 appears to be Reinman pencils. Pages 3 and 4 appear to be Sol Brodsky pencils with an unknown inker throughout."

The Hand
(Table of Contents: 29)

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Dark Room
(Table of Contents: 30)

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Possible Brodsky Pencils and Rule inks per atlastales.com and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Carl Burgos.

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

The Return of the Brain
(Table of Contents: 31)

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More adventures of the evil head that lives and moves without the benefit of a body.
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Follow-up of story in Adventures into Terror #5

You Can't Escape
(Table of Contents: 32)

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Breaking the fourth wall a Vampire addresses the reader, his intended victim. He tells how he first encountered his victim-to-be when he asked for help and was rebuffed. The vampire followed the reader, discovering where he lived and what comics he liked to buy. He spent considerable money printing up a custom copy of Adventures into Terror to place on the newsstand. The last panel of the story shows the vampire with claws extended and fangs bared - daring you to look over your shoulder.
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Possible Molno pencils and Alascia inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Joe Shuster on pencils and inks.

The Dark Room!
(Table of Contents: 33)

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A boy goes to live with his uncle who, unknown to the boy, practices black magic. The boy is saved from evil by the misshapen manservant.
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The Girl Who Couldn't Die!
(Table of Contents: 34)

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A phony medium unintentionally brings back the spirit of a murderess.
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Where Monsters Dwell!
(Table of Contents: 35)

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Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Sidebar art by Joe Maneely.

The Thing That Grew!
(Table of Contents: 36)

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  • Job Number:8793
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Joshua Borglum; Blakely
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Professor Borglum creates a new life when his blood is accidentally mixed with an experiment. When it continues to grow and kill people for their blood he tries to find a way to kill it.
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Going... Down!
(Table of Contents: 37)

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The elevator operator of a hotel considers committing a theft until he dreams of going to Hell.
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The Two Were Alone!
(Table of Contents: 38)

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A man becomes a victim of a cross-dressing serial killer.
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Where Monsters Dwell
(Table of Contents: 39)

comic story / 6 pages

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  • Job Number:8773
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A scientist uses a projector that banishes people he dislikes to another world. A light indicates where the beam connects both worlds and one of the men returns. He shoves the scientist through the aperture where he is killed by the natives. Other victims rush forward hoping to escape but the man switches off the device. The story ends with the man uncertain what to do: turn the beam on and rescue the other victims which might allow the attackers to pour through, or shut it off and condemn them to die. He addresses the reader directly, asking "What would you do?"
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Indexer Notes

Wolverton's splash panel was rejected and replaced by one drawn by an unidentified artist, according to an article in Basil Wolverton's Gateway to Horror #1 (Dark Horse, 1988), which reprinted this story. Speculation as to the artist includes Carl Hubbell, Vern Henkel and Carl Burgos.

Joe…
(Table of Contents: 40)

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A man starts a gag that he has an invisible goon that takes care of his grudges for him, but soon the 'coincidences' rack up...
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Enter…the Lizard!/You Can Only Die Once!/The Parasite!/The Creatures Who Laugh!
(Table of Contents: 41)

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Cover credits per Atlastales.com and Nick Caputo. Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

Enter…the Lizard
(Table of Contents: 42)

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  • Job Number:9399
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A man discovers a type of werelizard that reproduces its kind by injecting humans with a poison in its bite that transforms their bodies.
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Possible inkers per atlastales.com.

The Parasite
(Table of Contents: 43)

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You Can Only Die Once
(Table of Contents: 44)

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A man tries to kill himself over and over again but only succeeds in producing pain and mutilation, not the longed for oblivion. A friend of his informs him that he is already dead, for he committed suicide a year ago, and has been sent to Hell where all suicides reside.
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The Miracle
(Table of Contents: 45)

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A criminal in a bar at night sees a stranger doing wondrous things and so he pulls a gun and demands to know how they are done. The stranger says that if he wants these powers all he needs to do is agree to exchange places with him. He does so and commits various crimes with his new powers, but once the morning begins to arrive, he feels drawn to a cemetery and realizes that he has exchanged places with a ghost.
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The Ones Who Laugh
(Table of Contents: 46)

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A teacher notices that everyone laughs at him wherever he goes. It gets to the point where he is on the verge of madness. When talking to the school's dean, he finds out that the dean is an alien from a race of shape shifting humanoid bug-like creatures that have invaded the Earth. These aliens go from planet to planet consuming all living creatures. They have eaten every human on Earth except for the teacher. They had injected him with a duplicating serum so that he will mass produce more humans for them to eat. The teacher kills himself before this can happen.
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The Creators
(Table of Contents: 47)

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    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
  2. Welcome to Adventures into Terror Vol. 1
  3. The Thing in the Cave!
  4. The Monster Awakes
  5. The Unknown Partner
  6. The Ant World
  7. The Man Who Looked at Death
  8. Won’t You Step into My Parlor…? / The Strangers! / No Escape! / The Creeping Vine!
  9. The Stranger
  10. The Creeping Vine
  11. No Escape
  12. The Storm
  13. I Stalk by Night!/House of Horror!/Could the Girl I Loved Really Be One of the Living Dead?/Imagine Being Trapped in a Lonely Graveyard I Was!
  14. I Stalk by Night!
  15. House of Horror
  16. The Isle of No Return
  17. Murder at Midnight!
  18. The Living Dead
  19. The Torture Room!/The Living Brain!/Pawn of the Vampire!/The Thing in the Water!
  20. The Brain!
  21. Hands of Murder
  22. The Torture Room
  23. Vampire Brats
  24. The Thing in the Water
  25. Hitch-Hiker!/Find Me!/The Eye of Doom!/The Man Who Was Death!
  26. The Man Who Was Death!
  27. Find Me!
  28. The Clock Strikes!
  29. The Hitchhiker
  30. The Hand
  31. Dark Room
  32. The Return of the Brain
  33. You Can't Escape
  34. The Dark Room!
  35. The Girl Who Couldn't Die!
  36. Where Monsters Dwell!
  37. The Thing That Grew!
  38. Going... Down!
  39. The Two Were Alone!
  40. Where Monsters Dwell
  41. Joe…
  42. Enter…the Lizard!/You Can Only Die Once!/The Parasite!/The Creatures Who Laugh!
  43. Enter…the Lizard
  44. The Parasite
  45. You Can Only Die Once
  46. The Miracle
  47. The Ones Who Laugh
  48. The Creators
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