EERIE STORIES was the Ace publishing chain's first unsuccessful attempt at publishing a weird menace pulp to compete with the successful titles being published by Popular Publications, such as TERROR TALES and HORROR STORIES.  Although featuring a great Saunders cover and titles such as "Virgins of the Stone Death," "Corpse Girl's Return" ("she had slept the sleep of death with the dank, grisly corpses in the morgue") and "Mate of the Beast", EERIE STORIES only lasted one issue.