[#] 27 [Date] Dec/Jan 1952 [Cover artist] Wally Wood [Story] Well-Cooked Hams! [Story artist] Jack Davis [Host] Crypt Keeper [Summary] 
Two entrepreneurs want to pay off a French stage magician to perform his wondrous magic tricks on stage in the USA. He refuses, so they kill him and steal his manuscript with the intention of staging his horrific "illusions" themselves. There's just one important detail he left out of the script.