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Notes: Illustration of The Old Witch with an LP record in one hand and stirring a cauldron with the other.

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Notes: Detailed credits page for the reprint collection with a black and white illustration of some shambling corpses above the credits.

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Introduction

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Notes: Introduction with an illustration of The Old Witch.

Foreword

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

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

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Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

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Notes: Includes list of current titles on sale and indicia.

Room For One More!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: Young Rodney Whitman loses his parents in an automobile accident and goes to live with relatives. When he reaches twenty he realizes there is only one spot left in the family crypt and wishes to secure it for himself, thus he murders his three living relatives and disposes of their bodies in the swamp, lake, and cellar. The zombies return, dismember Rodney, and claim the remaining casket for themselves.

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Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

The Basket!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Vincent Cabez (death); Martha (Vincent's mid-wife); George (town market owner); group of children; Doc Hawkins (cameo)

Synopsis: A man born with two heads carries a basket around on his shoulder to prevent others from knowing of his condition. One of the heads is homicidal and when it begins to seize control, the good head opts for suicide.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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Notes: Promo ad for Two-Fisted Tales #22.

The Damaged Goddess

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: A man steals a figurine of a goddess from a temple. When he accidentally damages it, he becomes maimed in a work accident with the same wounds as the damage on the figurine.

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Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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Feature(s): Educational Comics, Inc.

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Notes: Promo ad for Educational Comics, Inc. versions of the Old Testament and New Testament.

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Notes: Letters from Cynthia Satterfield, George Shapiro, Dave Kennelly.

Horror In the School Room

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Genres: horror

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: Andy's friend Magog devours Andy's teacher after he hits Andy with a switch.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Although hosted by the Old Witch, there is no feature on this sequence.

The Howling Banshee!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Pat Brady; Tim O'Shea (Brady's father's friend); Noreen O'Shea Brady (Tim's daughter, death); Nick (villain); Ernie (villain)

Synopsis: A man with a gangster past flees to Ireland and engages a woman who claims a Banshee wails when one of her kin is about to die. The gangsters catch up with him, but he survives several attempts on his life until his wedding night when he lunges out into thick fog in an effort to kill the gangsters but ends up accidentally shooting his new bride. He can now hear the wail of the Banshee as he realizes he is about to die, either as a victim of the gangsters or for the murder of his wife.

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Notes: Illustration of a bullfighter and a bull.

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

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

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Notes: Advertisement for Illinois Merchandise Mart with indicia on the bottom of the page.

Hounded To Death!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: A man who keeps hounds starving for the foxhunt catches another guy making time with his wife. The wife tells him to pretend he's had a heart attack so the husband will dump his body down the road, but instead, since the husband is wise to them, he tosses the body into the dog kennel where it is ripped to shreds. The corpse returns to take revenge upon the husband.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

The Very Strange Mummy!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: Explorers discover a vampire entombed as a mummy. They stake it.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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Notes: Promo ad for Two-Fisted Tales #23.

Unguarded!

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: A man sneaks into a vault in Haiti to rob from the dead, only to have the dead come to life.

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Notes: Promo ad for Educational Comics versions of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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Notes: Letters from A. Belliose, Phil Carpenter, and Gerard Robbins.

Diminishing Returns!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: A man sets up a deal with the Jivaro head-hunter tribe to exchange his duped victims for large uncut diamonds. After his fourth victim is dispatched this way he receives a package at his doorstep. Upon opening the package he is terrified to see that it is the shrunken head of his last dupe. The head opens its eyes and glares at him. He drops the package and the head rolls free and attaches its teeth into his ankles, tripping him. Then the head tears his throat out.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Art credit from The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear (Dark Horse, 2015 series) #2.

The Irony of Death!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mr. Kreegor (plant owner, death); Sandra Kreegor Slag (Kreegor's daughter and Slag's wife); Jeffrey Slag (villain, plant superintendent, death)

Synopsis: A man tosses his steel mill boss into the vat after marrying the bosses' daughter thus inheriting the mill. Two of the ingots get made into an iron maiden for a museum exhibit and when he tries it out for size, it slams shut on him.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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Notes: Illustration of two men digging up a skeleton.

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): Haunt of Fear

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

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Feature(s): Consumers Mart

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Notes: Advertisement for Consumers Mart with indicia at the bottom of the page.

Warts So Horrible?

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: Two nephews attempt to grave rob their miser uncle at midnight for a diamond ring that he had buried with him. The corpse seizes them and re-buries all, with two young boys in the cemetery as witnesses who had been attempting a witchcraft spell for wart removal.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Graham Ingels [as G. Ingels] (signed)

Forbidden Fruit

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: Two passengers from a downed plane wash up on an island where the only food appears to be fruit that grows on a tree enclosed behind a stockade. The previous occupant tells them from behind the wall that eating the fruit will make their skin rot off, but they don't believe he is sane and so come back to the enclosure later that night and partake of the fruit, but then they get a look at him...

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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Notes: Promo ad for Two-Fisted Tales #24.

Genius

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: A vampire comes up with an ingenious method of acquiring blood by pretending to be a doctor and feeding on helpless patients. Unfortunately for him, it backfires when he consumes poisonous blood from a patient with an unknown disease.

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Notes: Promo ad for Educational Comics, Inc. versions of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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The Age-Old Story!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): Haunt of Fear

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: A young woman marries a biologist in his 50s for his money but quickly tires of him. She gets him to fork over all his dough and then tells him she's leaving him for a younger man. He proposes a farewell toast and, unbeknown to her, spikes her drink with an aging hormone that turns her into a withered old crone.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

The Gorilla's Paw!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Floyd (death); curio shop keeper (death); Joe (Floyd's friend, death); Eddie (Floyd's friend)

Synopsis: Uneasily eyeing objects in a curio shops' window, Floyd is summoned inside by the owner and induced to buy a mummified gorilla's paw for $25. He tosses it on his nightstand and goes to bed, but in the morning, the paw is covered with $25. The next day, the paw disappears, then reappears with blood all over it and one of his friends dead. Floyd soon learns that the paw will grant his wishes, with devastating results!

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Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): Haunt of Fear

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

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Notes: Feldstein's last horror cover.

Graham Ingels

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Genres: biography

Feature(s): The E.C. "Artist of the Issue"

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Notes: Inside front cover. Photo and biography.

Grave Business!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: An undertaker who overcharges for his services becomes paralyzed in an auto accident and buried alive because his partner doesn't bother to embalm him and uses all the tricks he learned while working with the victim to bilk the estate for the funeral costs.

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Notes: First use of "Ghastly" pen-name by Ingels. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Based on the story "Breakdown" by Louis Pollock.

The Vamp!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Arthur Lang (death); Deena Lang (a vampire, Arthur's wife); Georgette (villain, a vampire)

Synopsis: A man and wife go on vacation in Europe where he meets a vampire that falls in love with him. Once he learns what she is he rejects her in disgust and she angrily replies that she'll kill him before she lets him go back to his wife, but he knocks her away. When he returns to the hotel room, his wife informs him that she had sought out the vampire and was attacked and turned into one of them and attacks him.

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Notes: Promo ad for Two-Fisted Tales #25.

Hot Time!

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: An incompetent employee at a crematorium kills his boss. As he attempts to cremate the body to get rid of the evidence, he accidently locks himself in the oven and gets cremated himself.

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Notes: Promo ad for Educational Comics, Inc. versions of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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Notes: Letters from Bob Wallace, Louis Kovacs, The Boys in Pine Hill Cemetery.

My Uncle Ekar!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: Policeman interview a child who appears to be about six and claims he is really 24 and lives no place while going around all day watching his 'Uncle Ekar' murdering people which is what he wants to do when he grows up. The kid tells the police where they can find Uncle Ekar and he shows, but tries to run off and the police shoot him dead whereupon they realize that the child was not lying and he really did have three eyes and a forked tongue. The kid gets adopted and the police check up on him where the mother tells them that his dog died last night. The last panel depicts the kid winking at the reader with an eye in the middle of his forehead and a forked tongue.

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Notes: Although hosted by The Old Witch, there is no Haunt of Fear feature designation on this story. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Bum Steer!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Pedro; Maria Carlo (Manuel's beloved); Arturo Elzar (matador, death); Manuel Rodero (villain, matador, death)

Synopsis: A washed-up matador loses the favor of his lady to a young new-comer, so he buys a half-blind bull and torments it with a whip while teaching it to charge the smell of the perfumed handkerchief that he knows his lady will toss to the young matador to tuck into his belt. The bull gores the young matador and is then killed in turn. Later that evening the corpses of both the young matador and the bull take their revenge on the schemer as the matador holds him for the bull to gore.

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Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Cover story.

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): Haunt of Fear

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

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Jack Kamen

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Notes: Inside front cover. Photo and biography.

Ooze in the Cellar?

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: A miser creates a blob-like creature in his cellar by mixing in the remains of his wife with those of a mouse, a cat, and mounds of refuse.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Cover story.

The Acid Test!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A woman grows to hate her doting husband so much that she throws a bottle of acid into his face, blinding and disfiguring him. During her trial, he professes to still love her and makes excuses for her action. Her lawyer advises her to play along, and she acts convincingly, so the jury lets her off. Unfortunately for her, her husband was only acting on the witness stand as well, in order to prevent her being sent to prison, so he could pour a bottle of acid into her face.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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Notes: Promo ad for Shock SuspenStories #1.

Nightmare!

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Synopsis: A man has a nightmare that he's a vampire. Turns out he really is one.

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Notes: Promo ad for Educational Comics, Inc. versions of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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Notes: Letters from Florence Moore, Charlie & Al, and Alphonso Williams.

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Extermination

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Genres: horror

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: An exterminator has a dream after coming home from a job that he spots a cockroach on his floor. He gets up and strides over to it, bringing his shoe heel down upon the bug, whereupon it emits an ear-piercing shriek. This acts as a signal for all the bugs and rats the exterminator has ever killed to come pouring out of the walls and overwhelm him. Just as he is about to expire, he wakes up and sees a cockroach on the floor. Feeling annoyed at himself for having such an absurd dream, he crosses the floor and brings his shoe down upon it, whereupon the roach...screams.

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Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Irwin Durd (death); Elliot Unger (death)

Synopsis: Two business partners who own a fertilizer factory next to a cemetery decide to tunnel under ground into the caskets in order to fill a large order for bone meal fertilizer. After they succeed in filling the order, they decide to take a vacation upstate, but the car conks out beside a farm's corn patch. They move through the corn patch, which happens to have been fertilized by the order they filled, towards the farmhouse but do not make it as the corn husks become animated and beat them to death.

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): Haunt of Fear

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

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Al Feldstein

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Genres: biography, non-fiction

Feature(s): The EC "Artist of the Issue"

Character(s): Al Feldstein (photo)

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Poetic Justice!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: A wealthy man and his son want the property of the well-liked elderly town garbageman and so they instigate a smear campaign to drive him out. First they get a license ordinance passed, and since he can't afford to pay it, the stray dogs and cats he's picked up are carted off to the pound. Then they get the neighborhood's children to stop visiting the old man. St. Valentine's day arrives and the old man is at first delighted to find his mailbox stuffed with cards thinking that the children have not forgotten him after all. Then, sobbing, he reads the poisoned missives one after the other that the wealthy man and his son have distributed amongst the townsfolk. No one sees him for a week so they check his house and find that he has hanged himself. On the following St. Valentine's day his corpse rises from the grave and tears the heart from the son's chest and leaves it as a valentine for the father.

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Notes: Adapted in the 1972 "Tales From the Crypt" film. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Cover story.

...On a Dead Man's Chest!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Steven Anderson (wealthy steamship line owner, death); Helen Anderson (villain, Steven's wife); Larry Anderson (villain, Steven's brother, death)

Synopsis: A man's younger brother begins an affair with his wife, and, after a night on the town, the elder brother gets a tattoo on his chest of himself, his brother, and his wife arm-in-arm. The younger brother and the married woman hatch a plot to murder the husband where it will look accidental, but what they don't realize is that the tattoo will reflect the murder scene to the authorities.

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Synopsis: A kid builds a flame thrower and kills his mom's criminal boyfriend.

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Feature(s): Educational Comics, Inc.

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Notes: Reprint of promo ad for Educational Comics, Inc. versions of the Old Testament, the New Testament, Picture Stories From Science #2 and Picture Stories From World History #2.

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Notes: Letters from Richard T. Dick, James "Wolfie" Tarsenis, Jerilyn Rogin, Dom Sicilia, George A. Boehm, and Harvey Cohen.

Till Death Do We Part!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: "The Sixth Sense" with a burglar instead of a psychologist.

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What's Cookin'?

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eric Edwards; Herman Ditter (villain, restaurant co-owner, death); Charlie Marsin (villain, restaurant co-owner, death)

Synopsis: Two restaurant owners take on a third partner with ideas to make their roadside diner a success. He convinces them to specialize in chicken and adds broiling and deep fried to their eatery renamed the 'Chicken Coop'. The owners get greedy and decide to murder the newcomer in order not to have to split the profits with him. They tie him up and set his house on fire, he escapes, but is severely burned and makes his way back to his former business partners where he broils one and deep fries the other.

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First Line: Look out for more EC Archives from Dark Horse in 2022 and 2023!

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Notes: Promo ad for The EC Archives: Crime Patrol Volume 1, The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories Volume 3, The EC Archives: Incredible Science Fiction and The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy Volume 1.

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Notes: Rear cover showing inset reprints of covers of Haunt of Fear #7-12.