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[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Wroten ?

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset); Bruno; Thaddius Godkin

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Haunt of Fear #5 published November 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Script, lettering and colorist credits by Craig Delich.

A Biting Finish!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Graham Ingels

Inker(s): Graham Ingels

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Bob (death); Ellen (Bruno's wife, death); Thaddius Godkin (death, in flashback); Mr. Lane; Mrs. Lane (death); Jim (member of the posse); Bruno (villain)

Synopsis: A man murders his rival and buries his body in the grave of someone who died in 1867. When he confesses in his sleep, his new wife confronts him and he murders both her and the maid. With police on his heels he takes to an underground tunnel system that passes through the old graveyard. A coffin obstructs his path and he smashes an opening into it to reach inside and pry it out of the way. The corpse inside bites down hard on his hand causing him to bleed to death. As life fades, he notices the name plate on the coffin is the same one that he disposed of the body of his rival.

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Iskalde Grøss #4 [1988] published January 1988
as Noe å tygge på! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Haunt of Fear #5 published November 1993
as A Biting Finish! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Notes: Cover story.

Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (masthead and spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (masthead and spot illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche

Character(s): The Old Witch

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Pages: 1

Horror in the Freak Tent!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Wally Wood

Inker(s): Wally Wood

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Henry Hastings (carnival manager, narrator); Fanny (carnival fat lady); Extal (carnival Indian rubber man); Corpus (carnival armless and legless boy); Zolto (carnival knife thrower); Mrs. Zolto; Louie Glantz (villain, carnival owner, death)

Synopsis: Enraged, a freak show owner blinds the carnival's knife thrower with red-hot pokers. The other freaks get revenge by gagging the owner, strapping him to the board and guiding the thrower's tosses with their comments.

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Iskalde Grøss #2/1991 published January 1991
as Utartet attføring! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Haunt of Fear #5 published November 1993
as Horror in the Freak Tent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Horror in the Freak Tent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint

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Pages: 7

Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Skeleton

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (masthead illustration)

Inker(s): ? (masthead illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): unnamed homicide Police Captain; Weldon (ex-con, death)

Synopsis: Released from prison just two days earlier, ex-con Weldon made his way to Fairview Cemetery to inspect the grave of a deceased ex-partner in crime with him ten years earlier, Paul Kleeg. When he dug up the coffin and opened it, Kleeg's skeleton was there.....grinning at Weldon. Before he died, Weldon told the Police that when he leaned over the skeleton of Kleeg, a hand reached out, grabbed him......and stabbed him.

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A Tasty Morsel!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Davis

Inker(s): Jack Davis

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

Character(s): The Old Witch (host); unnamed traveler (death); unnamed innkeeper (villain, a ghoul)

Synopsis: You pull into the End of the Road Inn and proceed to have a dream that you become the victim of a vampiric innkeeper who ties his victims upon a slab to slash their wrists and collect their blood in a bowl. Upon awakening you realize you got one detail wrong as you are indeed tied upon a slab as the innkeeper expresses indignation at being referred to as a vampire. He proclaims he is a ghoul as he advances upon you with meat cleaver held high.

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Iskalde Grøss #5/1992 published January 1992
as En riktig lekkerbisken! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Haunt of Fear #5 published November 1993
as A Tasty Morsel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Seeds of Death!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Johnny Craig

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig

Inker(s): Johnny Craig

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Cliff (hired hand, death); Basil Woods (Connie's husband, farmer, death); Joe (trash truck employee); Connie Woods (villain, Basil's wife)

Synopsis: A farmer's wife and the hired hand are having an affair, so the farmer kills the hand one evening and buries him along with some flower seeds he had purchased that day in the field. When the farmer's wife leaves for the city to inquire as to Cliff's whereabouts, the farmer corners his wife in an alley and threatens her with violence. She clouts him with a lead pipe and stuffs him into a garbage can which the sanitation workers load into the compacter truck. When the wife returns to the farm through the field she comes across the newly sprouted flowers and realizes what must have happened.

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Haunt of Fear #5 published November 1993
as Seeds of Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Iskalde Grøss #2/1994 published January 1994
as Sådd av død! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.