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Issue: Haunt of Fear #4
Publication Date: January 1985
 
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Volume: 4
Pages: 180
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Content Items: 42 (25 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Russ Cochran
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Color: Color cover; mostly black & white interior
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
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Binding: Hardcover
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Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
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Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (inset); the Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Miscellaneous
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
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Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (inset); the Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Ray Bradbury

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Typeset
Subject Matter
biography, non-fiction
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Photo and biography of Ray Bradbury.
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Pipe Down!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Graham Ingels
Graham Ingels
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Witch's Cauldron!
The Old Witch (host); Andrew (Lila's husband); a monkey (reincarnation of Andrew); a Policeman; Lila (villain, death); Howard (villain, oil-burner company employee, Lila's boyfriend)
A young woman marries an old man with a penchant for pipe smoking and poetry for his money and quickly grows tired of him, then she meets a young man and they plot to push him down the stairs as though it were accidental. After he dies, she buys a monkey as a pet that was born the same day her husband was killed. Howard wants to get married immediately but Lila says to wait a year....but when Howard starts finding clues to Lila possibly having an affiar, and she denies it, he murders her and is arrested. Meanwhile, the monkey settles back in the easy chair with a pipe and a book of poetry.
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Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Bedtime Gory!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
George Evans
George Evans
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Vault of Horror!
The Vault-Keeper (host)
A woman buys a stretch rack for her husband when he reveals that he killed her wealthy father so as to appear it was an accident, and then married her for her money and not for love.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Decision!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Marie Severin
Marie Severin
Typeset
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
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Letters page

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Typeset
Subject Matter
The Old Witch's Niche
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Miscellaneous
1
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Pot-Shot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale!
The Old Witch (host); the Prince; the King
This grim fairy tale relates the story of a prince who gets the king to pay him a yearly allowance of what he weighs in gold. In order to be as heavy as can be, he swallows lead shot to get his already fat frame close to almost 500 pounds. As he urges the carriage faster and faster to arrive at his new castle, the brakes are thrown suddenly and the shot explodes out of him.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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The Black Ferris!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation)
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Crypt of Terror
The Crypt-Keeper (host); two boys; rich woman; thief (villain)
Two boys witness a ferris wheel at a creepy carnival that can make time go forwards or backwards for the rider depending on which way the wheel spins. A man tries to take advantage of this by riding the wheel backwards 24 times until he is a 10 year boy and then posing as an orphan in order to find and steal a kindly old woman's money who has taken him in. He plans to then ride the wheel forwards 24 times so no one will ever find the culprit. The boys tell the woman, but are not believed, so they wait until the man is on the ferris wheel and sends it into the future....with amazing results.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Notes and Comments

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Benson; Bill Mason; Bhob Stewart
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John Benson
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
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Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Miscellaneous
1
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Sucker Bait!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Witch's Cauldron!
The Old Witch (host); Emile (a chemist, death); father of Emile and Stanley (death); Stanley (villain, a vampire, Emile's older brother)
After his father is killed by a vampire, a chemist comes up with a plan to sacrifice himself so that others may live. He drinks a radioactive substance that may be traced by a Geiger counter and leaves a note for his brother detailing the plan to use the instrument to track down the vampire after he has drained the isotope blood. Unfortunately for his plan, the chemist's brother turns out to be the vampire.
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Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Lover, Come Hack to Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
George Evans
George Evans
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Vault of Horror!
The Vault-Keeper (host)
Every generation, a madwoman is conceived on the night of her parent's wedding who follows the tradition of murdering her newly-wed husband with an ax in the same house.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Incendiary!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Marie Severin
Marie Severin
Typeset
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
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Letters page

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
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Subject Matter
horror
The Old Witch's Niche
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Miscellaneous
1
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Double-Header!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale!
The Old Witch (host)
In this grim fairy tale an old king finds a young girl to marry and is deeply in love with her but cannot offer her the physical relationship she needs, so she takes a lover. Three court ladies who are very jealous of her find out and inform the king. The king's honor has been insulted, and so his queen and her lover must pay with their lives, but the king truly loved her deeply and is heartbroken. He makes the three women who ruined his happiness pay by blinding one, deafening the other, and cutting the tongue out of the third.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Foul Play!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Crypt of Terror
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Psychotic baseball players dismember a player from an opposing baseball team in revenge for his using poisoned cleats in a game and then use his body parts to play ball.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
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Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Miscellaneous
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Thump Fun!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Witch's Cauldron!
The Old Witch (host); Luther Courtney (death); Gilbert Courtney (Luther's brother, death); three detectives (in flashback); three Policemen; Marvin Courtney (villain, brother of Luther)
A murderer thinks he is like the character in Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart", imagining he hears a heartbeat in the walls, but after police examine the area they find his older brother's corpse. When the youngest brother admits to slaying the eldest brother for the family inheritance and burying the body in the cellar, the police dig it up, and it is revealed to be missing its heart.
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Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Cover story.

Some of the story is told in flashback.
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Terror Train

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Al Feldstein
Al Feldstein
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Vault-Keeper's E.C. Classic
The Vault-Keeper (host); Gloria; Ralph (Gloria's husband)
Gloria was in a cab, running away from her husband Ralph...heading toward the train station and the train that would take her away from this man whom she thought was trying to poison her. Seated on the train, she imagined him at every turn, remembering the $25,000 insurance policies Ralph had taken out on them both, and then remembered that poison bottle he had brought home. A series of events following end when she awakens in her berth on the train, then sees Ralph with an attendant in a white coat, who takes her off to a nice house with bars on it so that Ralph can never get to her again!
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Tasty Dish!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Marie Severin
Marie Severin
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
typeset
Subject Matter
The Old Witch's Niche
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Miscellaneous
1
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Bloody Sure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Reed Crandall
Reed Crandall
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (host); a vampire (villain)
A man marries a woman the townsfolk warn him away from because, after her previous five husbands sicken and die, they think she is a vampire. It turns out her child has a rare blood disorder and she has been performing transfusions upon the men as they slept at night. The man knows she isn't a vampire because he is in fact one, and he drains both her and the child's blood.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Hyde and Go Shriek!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Crypt of Terror
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
A chemist strings along a rich admirer of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde who is willing to pay to have such a personality altering formula recreated. The joke is on the chemist when he ingests the formula he comes up, thinking that it's a placebo, but it actually does work and he loses control of himself and murders his girlfriend.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
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Subject Matter
horror
The Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Will Elder [as B. Elder]
Will Elder [as B. Elder]
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Subject Matter
humorous
Melvin? You say you can't find Mad anywhere?
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An Off-Color Heir

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Witch's Cauldron!
The Old Witch (host); Laura [Harber] Rais; Gilbert Rais (Laura's husband, in flashback); unnamed priest; Baron Gilles de Rais [Bluebeard] (image only); Gilbert Rais [aka the new Bluebeard] (villain, Laura's husband, also in flashback)
Laura dreamed of being a famous painter, and years back her husband-to-be came by her studio to have his portrait painted. They fell in love, married, and moved to his planation home in Louisiana. In that home hung a portrait of her husband's French Baron relation, which haunted her, as did a room in the home that wouldn't open. Now, years later, she discovered a bottle of black ink in the bathroom for her husband's new beard, and when she was able to get the mystery door opened she found seven dead women lying there, and her husband, now with a blue beard and a razor in his hand.......
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Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Much of the story is told in flashback.
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Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Crypt of Terror
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Ulric, the undying (death); Dr. Emil Manfred (death); Saxton
A doctor transplants a cat's nine lives gland into a derelict in order to make money in death-defying stunts. The derelict betrays the doctor in order to keep more of the money, but the doctor has the last laugh by realizing the derelict is miscounting the lives he has left to lose since the dead cat had already used one making eight, not nine left.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Out of Sight!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
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Subject Matter
horror
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Typeset
Subject Matter
The Old Witch's Niche
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No letters; proposal and structure of The E.C. Fan-Addict Club
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Corker!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Kamen
Bill Elder
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (host); unnamed woman (death); a psychologist (villain)
A woman with suicidal tendencies and the skeptical psychologist who loves her visit a swami who diagnoses her problem as stemming from her having witnessed the hanging of an obese man whose head popped right off the body releasing a 'decapitation Lamia' that has possessed her and, sadly, can only be removed by decapitation. She flees from the swami in terror, rushing down into the subway, where she finds herself thrown under the train wheels and the pursuing psychologist bursts into maniacal laughter as the Lamia possesses him.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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The High Cost of Dying!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Reed Crandall
Reed Crandall
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Vault of Horror!
The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed Commissioner of Health (death)
A man in nineteenth century Paris is faced with the choice of paying a licensed undertaker money he does not have to bury his wife or turning her corpse over to medical students for dissection practice because of a new ordinance passed by the Commissioner of Health. He drops a body off in the evening at the medical college, and the following day uses the money he's received to buy food and clothes for his starving children and to bury his wife. The medical students realize that the body they've received is that of the Commissioner of Health.
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Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
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Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Wish You Were Here

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Graham Ingels
Graham Ingels
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Witch's Cauldron!
The Old Witch (host); Jason Logan; Enid Logan; Bart Shiner (lawyer)
A couple in financial difficulty recall a time when they picked up a jade statue in Hong Kong. The wife reads the text at the base of the statue that says it grants three wishes and she wishes for money. The husband remembers a story he once read called 'The Monkey's Paw' and tells her not to wish, but it's too late. He gets a call from his lawyer advising him to drive into town, which he does, and gets into a fatal accident which mangles his body and pays off life insurance to the wife. She hasn't read the story, so she asks the man who informs her of the insurance payout about it. He tells her, whatever you do, don't wish for your husband back as he will be mangled. She says she won't make the same mistake and wishes him back before the accident. Men bring in the casket and she gets her wish, but he is still dead, as he died of a heart attack moments before the accident. The distraught wife uses her last wish to wish her husband alive but he writhes in pain because his blood has been replaced with formaldehyde. She tries shooting him a rifle but it doesn't kill him so she grabs a craving knife and shops him up into tiny little pieces, but the pieces still pulse with life.
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Adapted in the 1972 "Tales From the Crypt" film.
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Chess-Mate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
George Evans
George Evans
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Vault of Horror!
The Vault-Keeper (host)
A marvel chess player in a small town shoots himself when they hold a parade and he is expected to remove his top hat to salute the flag. The top hat hides a Siamese twin head that accounted for his superior abilities at chess.
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Hot Reception!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Marie Severin
Marie Severin
Typeset
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
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Letters page

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Typeset
Subject Matter
The Old Witch's Niche
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Miscellaneous
1
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale!
The Old Witch (host)
This grim fairy tale reveals the REAL reason Snow White got the poisoned apple was that she was a neat freak who was driving the seven dwarfs nuts.
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Model Nephew

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Crypt of Terror
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
A nephew murders his uncle for his money and winds up a prisoner in one of his ship-in-a-bottles.
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7
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Al Feldstein
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Subject Matter
horror
Crypt-Keeper; Vault-Keeper; Old Witch
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Miscellaneous
1
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
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Subject Matter
horror
The Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Miscellaneous
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