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Issue: Haunt of Fear #1
Publication Date: January 1985
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Volume: 1
Pages: 212
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Content Items: 46 (32 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Russ Cochran
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; mostly black & white interior
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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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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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch
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The Wall: A Psychological Study

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): Neal Harper; Clara Harper; Snooky (a cat)
Synopsis: Clara is always harping to Neal about tending to the cat's needs, even if they supercede those of him as her husband. When Neal accidently kills Clara instead of Snooky, he decides to wall up his wife's body in the cellar. Unfortunately, Neal's conscience and the cat gets the best of him!
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Disclose Notes: A story similar to Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat with a few themes from The Telltale Heart mixed in.

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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House of Horror

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Les Wilton; Henderson (death?); Waters (death?); Arling (death?)
Synopsis: Three college freshmen plegees disappear one night as part of the Gamma Delta Fraternity hazing at a local haunted house, the Palmer Place. Les Wilton goes in after them, but when he doesn't make a re-appearance, people going into the home looking for him find him: having aged fifty years!
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Notes and Comments

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Out of the Grave

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Marie; The Thing [Jim] (the walking dead); un-named man (villain, death)
Synopsis: Having already killed her friend Jim and buried him, the un-named man tied Marie to the chair and set the cabin on fire, all to get her inheritance. But Jim was not content to allow the girl he once cared for and promised to protect die in the fire, so he rose from the grave to exact his revenge on her tormentor!
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The Mad Magician

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): Jim Crane (reporter); Alice Crane (Jim's wife); Czar (Boris' dog); Caesar (Boris' dog); Boris Petaja (villain, magician, death)
Synopsis: Skilled in the tricks of ancient and modern magic, a mad magician decides to perform the ultimate trick of all time: to saw a man in half and then put him back together again. What he doesn't know is that a trick of fate will turn the tables on the magaician.
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The Thing in the Swamp!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Scientific SuspenStory
Character(s): Sam (death?); un-named partner of Sam (death?); Robert Colby (Marie's fiancee); Professor Carl Ward (scientist, death); Marie Ward (Ward's daughter, death)
Synopsis: Two men are making their way through the Okefenokee Swamp when an old man warns them not to continue on. When questioned, the man recounts the story of three people, two of them scientists, who came to the swamp to conduct an experiment, which they felt failed. When the mixture they made was thrown into the swamp, a strange blob-like creature was born, which killed the scientist and his daughter. The old man warns them of extreme danger if they continue, and the fact that the old man was the fiancee of the scientist's daughter doesn't sway them one bit!
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Disclose Notes: A Blob-type story.

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Vampire!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Journey Into the Supernatural
Character(s): Dr. Jim Reed (coroner, death); un-named Chief of Police; Laura Bates (maid for Jonathan Winslow, death); Jonathan Winslow (Nelda's father, death); Nelda Winslow (villain, vampire)
Synopsis: Dr. Reed is called in to diagnose a young woman and mistakenly assumes that her father is a vampire draining her blood, when, in fact, she is the vampire.
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Disclose Notes: Because of his belief in vampires, Dr. Reed is refered to, in this story, as "Bat" Man.

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Horror-Ahead!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Study in Terror!
Character(s): Amos Avery (curio shop owner, death); Lester (Amos' assistant); un-named collector of shrunken heads
Synopsis: A man makes a deal with an African tribe to provide the head of a partner who attempted to steal their shrunken heads.
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Death Shroud!

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Genres: horror
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The Killer in the Coffin!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): An Adventure in Horror
Character(s): Nan Parker; Faye Booth (Ernest's secretary); Ernest Parker (villain, insurance man, Nan's husband)
Synopsis: A man fakes his death from the plague in order to have a perfect alibi for murdering his wife. But he doesn't count on his lover, the lovely Faye Booth, contracting the plague and being unable to unearth his coffin.
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Murder By a Dead Man!

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The Mummy's Return!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); King Khufu (flashback); un-named High Priest (flashback); Nirrah (daughter of the High Priest, flashback, death); The Mummy [Famu] (a courier, flashback, death); Tom (British Museum expedition member); Nina (British Museum expedition member); Carl Bronson (villain, British Museum expedition member)
Synopsis: In 2902 B.C., King Khufu desires the lovely Nirrah to be his bride, but first, he must do away with the man she loves: Famu. When she learns Famu is dead, her father gives her the "Prayer for raising the dead", which she uses in the tomb itself. But the King seals her in the tomb for all time. Years later, members of a British Museum expedition discover the tomb and a similar scenario is played out.....but with a different result!
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Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch; The Vault-Keeper; The Crypt-Keeper
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Nightmare!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Psychological Study
Character(s): John Severin (construction engineer, death); Dr. Froyd (psychiatrist); Paul (construction worker)
Synopsis: A construction engineer has recurring dreams of being buried alive, so he visits a psychiatrist. Dr. Froyd interprets these dreams as subconscious indications of being 'buried under work'. The engineer resolves to inspect the concrete moldings of the latest project before taking his summer vacation. He doses off briefly, but when he comes to, finds they have begun pouring the concrete, and, believing this to be yet another dream, begins to laugh and makes no attempt to escape.
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Television Terror!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Journey Into the Supernatural
Character(s): Al Hunt (death); Martha Babbit; Professor John Poltergeist (member of the London Society of Psychic Research, death)
Synopsis: A television personality, Al Hunt, broadcasts live from a haunted house --- a house in which the original owner, Mr. Creedmore, and subsequent inhabitants, all were found dead, hanging from the same beam in an upstairs bedroom. With cameras rolling, he enters the house with a famed psychic, allowing the viewing public the chance to judge for themselves.......they have quite a show in store for them!
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Disclose Notes: Said by Ghost story expert, Barbara Roden, to based on Robert Arthur's 'The Believers' (Weird Tales, July 1941; also published as 'Do You Believe in Ghosts?').

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Repeat Performance

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Genres: horror
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Monster Maker!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Scientific SuspenStory
Character(s): Un-named doctor at London Hospital; Whitsly (Ravenscar's assistant, death, brain transplanted into dead body to live again); Dr. John Ravenscar (villain, London Hospital Chief Surgeon, death)
Synopsis: Dr. Ravenscar intends to transplant the brain of an ape into a human body, but the assistant drops it. Enraged, Dr. Ravenscar uses the assistant's brain instead, but the assistant gets his revenge by luring the doctor out of an open window over the sea cliff.
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Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
Character(s): The Old Witch
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Horror Beneath the Streets!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein; The Vault-Keeper; The Crypt-Keeper
Synopsis: The three GhouLunatics accost Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein as they are finishing up an issue of Modern Love and closing shop for the night. The Old Witch chases them into the sewer where the Crypt Keeper forces Bill Gaines to sign a contract, the Vault Keeper forces Al Feldstein to sign one and the Old Witch gets her comic book deal in exchange for agreeing to let Al and Bill out of the sewer.
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Disclose Notes: Features all three Ghoulunatics, Bill Gaines, and Al Feldstein.

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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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The Hunchback!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Roger Compton; Peter Goglo (death); Henry Gordon (doctor); the Ghoul (villain, death)
Synopsis: Roger is visiting a small town and runs into an old college chum of his, Peter Goglo......a man whom the town's people claim to be a ghoul. In fact, the man has a ghoulish undeveloped twin growing out of his back that is a flesh eater.......a ghoul that eventually kills its host!
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Fire

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Genres: horror
Character(s): un-named man's wife (death); un-named man (villain, death)
Synopsis: A man has developed a super-powerful fire-bomb.....a bomb he intends to use to kill his wife for her insurance money as well as the surrounding populace. But fate has a real shock and surprise for him!
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The Tunnel of Terror!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Linda Cross (Paul's sister, death); El Jefe (Policeman); Paul Cross (villain)
Synopsis: Linda Cross takes her brother Paul south of the border for relaxation to forestall a nervous breakdown. Unfortunately for Linda, it happens anyway, and Paul gives in to his ghoulish desires.
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Cunning

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Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
Character(s): The Old Witch
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The Living Mummy

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Professor Arnold Zamron (scientist, death); Stevens (Zamron's assistant, death); Krause (Zamron's assistant, death); The Mummy (villain)
Synopsis: Three scientists succeed in reviving a mummy who then proceeds to kill two of them with the third running over a cliff in a panic.
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Man From the Grave!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Billy Johnson (Jon's friend, death, seen also in spirit form); Jim (horror magazine editor); Jon Wayland (artist, rises from dead)
Synopsis: An artist in desperate financial straights shoves a man's face into a vat of etching acid in order to acquire his paints. Before he dies, he curses the artist to keep painting up to the point he drops dead... and beyond.
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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); Bruno; Thaddius Godkin
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A Biting Finish!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Bob (death); Ellen (Bruno's wife, death); Thaddius Godkin (death, 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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Letters page

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Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
Character(s): The Old Witch
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Horror in the Freak Tent!

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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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Skeleton

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A Tasty Morsel!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); un-named traveler (death); un-named 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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Seeds of Death!

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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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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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A Strange Undertaking...

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: Ezra Deepley is an undertaker who feels he has suffered injustice at the hands of influential town citizens so when they die during an epidemic of disease, Ezra takes advantage of the situation to revenge himself upon their corpses.
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Disclose Notes: E.C.'s first Bradbury swipe. Swipe of "The Handler".

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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So They Finally Pinned You Down!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); three un-named girls (all die); Dr. Alex Farnsworth (mention only); girl vampire (villain); male vampire ( villain, death)
Synopsis: A drifter is "turned" by a vampire, but doesn't understand this strange new condition and powerful urges, so he attempts to track the woman down. He continually feels that he has found her at last only to realize his mistake when he has slaked his blood thirst upon his latest victim. Eventually the citizens discover his hiding place and pound a stake through his heart and he dies without ever fully comprehending what has happened to him.
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Marsh Sand

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Letters page

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Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
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A Grave Gag!!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: An unpopular family member with a penchant for playing practical jokes on the occasion of family member's funerals outsmarts himself when he takes the place of his brother's dead wife in her coffin and the family refuse to view his screams as anything but another gag, thus burying him alive.
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Cheese, That's Horrible!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: The owner of a cheese factory murders his partner by shoving him into a cheese vat in order to avoid sharing the profits. He dreams of being pursued by glowing cat's eyes and crawls across a mouse trap baited with cheese from which dangle the hands of his partner.
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Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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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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Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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