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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); a mummy

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Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

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Notes: An illustration of two hands reaching up out of the ground.

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Nan Parker; Faye Booth (Ernest's secretary); Ernest Parker (villain, insurance man, Nan's husband)

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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Foreward

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Robert Englund (credited)

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Jacob Filbert (death); Eileen Filbert (Jacob's wife)

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

Character(s): The Old Witch

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Pages: 1

Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

Marie Severin colors credit is disputed on the basis of evidence that Severin was not yet working at EC (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

SuspenStory Fans!

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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror

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Notes: Promo ad for The Vault of Horror #12.

The Wall: A Psychological Study

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

Character(s): Clara Harper (Neal's wife, death); Neal Harper (villain); 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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Pages: 8

Notes: A story similar to Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat with a few themes from "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado" 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.

Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

Marie Severin colors credit is disputed (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

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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Pages: 6

Notes: The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear, Volume 1 (2011) lists the writer as Ivan Klapper.

Klapper also wrote a few early stories in The Vault of Horror and Tales From the Crypt, as well as some of the early one page text features. He later became a consultant for the 1959-1961 ABC-TV paranormal TV drama, "One Step Beyond".

The story appears to have drawn its inspiration from a fraternity initiation anecdote from Bennett Cerf's "Try and Stop Me", also a favorite source of plot inspiration for Bill Gaines.

Kurtzman recounts that it was this story that got him the EX account.

Writer credit revised from Al Feldstein to Ivan Klapper and letterer credit revised from Jim Wroten to Ben Oda by Craig Delich.

Marie Severin colors credit is disputed (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.
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Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.

Out of the Grave

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Marie; The Thing [Jim] (the walking dead); unnamed 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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Notes: Adapted in Tales From the Crypt reprints as full 8 page story sequence re-titled as "The Thing From the Grave".

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The Mad Magician

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The 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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Pages: 7

Notes: 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.

Marie Severin colors credit is disputed (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

The Thing in the Swamp!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Scientific SuspenStory

Character(s): Sam (death?); unnamed 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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Pages: 7

Notes: Splash page and last panel altered to The Old Witch in Vault of Horror reprints, although character was still in green robe like the Vault-Keeper. The Old Witch usually had a red robe.

A Blob-type story.

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.

Marie Severin colors credit is disputed (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

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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)

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Reprint Notes: Enlargement of panel 7, page 5 from the story "The Killer in the COffin!".

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

Character(s): Jim Reed; Nelda Winslow

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Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

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Notes: Promo ad for other EC titles; includes indicia at the bottom of the page.

Vampire!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Journey Into the Supernatural

Character(s): Dr. Jim Reed (coroner, death); unnamed 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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Pages: 8

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.

Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

Cover story.

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); unnamed 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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Pages: 7

Notes: 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.

Death Shroud!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Nelly (death); unnamed Police Inspector; Nelly's unnamed husband (villain)

Synopsis: Nelly's husband was sick to death of his wife's constant knitting and the click! click! click! of the knitting needles, so he slowly poisons her over a long period of time, traveling to Boston to establish an alibi. However, Nelly gets her revenge....from the grave!

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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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Pages: 6

Notes: 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.

Murder By a Dead Man!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Jim Trenton (death); Emma (Ed's wife); Ed (villain, death)

Synopsis: Ed was jealous of the fact that Jim was in love with his wife, who planned on getting a divorce. So Ed, acting as if nothing was amiss, proposed a hunting trip for himself and Jim, intending on killing Jim. He shot Jim three times and took the lifeless body to a swamp, intending to dump the body in, which he did, with disastrous results!

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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); unnamed 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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Pages: 7

Notes: 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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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

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

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Notes: Includes indicia at the bottom of the page.

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)

First Line: One of your employees has fallen to his death from a scaffold.

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)

First Line: Ah... the thin line that separates the physical from the spiritual...

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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Pages: 7

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.

Marie Severin colors credit is disputed (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.
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References:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.

Repeat Performance

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Carstairs; insane killer (villain)

First Line: Carstairs awoke with a start...

Synopsis: Carstairs awakes from a scary and frightening dream.....a dream so real that he literally shakes with fear. Then, the dream becomes a reality!

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Monster Maker!

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Scientific SuspenStory

Character(s): unnamed 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)

First Line: Somewhere... somewhere on this Earth, there's a hideous... thing...

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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Pages: 6

Notes: 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.

Fox's script is plainly derivative of the 1931 film version of "Frankenstein".

Marie Severin colors credit is disputed (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

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Character(s): The Old Witch

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Notes: With illustrated title header.

Letters printed from Miss Barbara Williams, Wallace E. Gatesp, The Vault-Keeper and The Crypt-Keeper.

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

First Line: Heh, heh! Well... we meet again!

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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Pages: 7

Notes: Features all three Ghoulunatics, Bill Gaines, and Al Feldstein.

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.

Marie Severin colors credit is disputed (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

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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); a mummy

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Pages: 1

Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

Take Pictures Day or Night

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Feature(s): Martins-David Co.

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Notes: Camera ad with indicia at the bottom of the page.

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)

First Line: Hee, hee! Yes! It's me again!

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): unnamed man's wife (death); un-named man (villain, death)

First Line: He released the firebomb he had been preparing so carefully in his workroom...

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)

First Line: Welcome dear reader... welcome once more to the Vault of Horror!

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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Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Promo ad for Crime SuspenStories #3.

Cunning

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Herr Kanzler (villain, camp commandant, death)

First Line: The Camp lay in almost total ruin around him...

Synopsis: The Camp was considered to be THE model concentration camp used by the Nazis. Now, the Gestapo Detachment had abandoned it and it was literally being destroyed by Allied aircraft with only the now blind Kanzler still there. Determined to make himself safe from the bombing, he decides to find safety in the gas chamber.....not the wisest move!

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

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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)

First Line: This is the story of three men who created life out of death...

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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Pages: 6

Notes: Cover story.

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" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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)

First Line: A dead man, painting my picture!

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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Pages: 7

Notes: 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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Genres: horror

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

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Pages: 1

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Genres: horror

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

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

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

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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, 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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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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Science Fiction Fans!

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Feature(s): Weird Science

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Skeleton

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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!

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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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Seeds of Death!

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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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Notes: 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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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Hendrick Villhem (cheese-maker, death); Prince's butler; Bradbury Prince (villain, cheese factory owner, death)

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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); Ezra Deepley (undertaker, death); Clem Bookin (cemetery caretaker); Mrs. Bridgeman (voice only); John Bridgeman (Mrs. Bridgeman's husband, dentist, cameo, also in flashback, death); Fredrick Dunhill (town Mayor, cameo, also in flashback, death); Horace Streetwall (banker, cameo, also in flashback, death); Dr. Claude Fowler (cameo, also in flashback, death)

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. But soon, the five corpses rise and get their revenge on Ezra.

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Notes: E.C.'s first Bradbury swipe, of "The Handler".

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

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 unnamed girls (all die); Dr. Alex Farnsworth (mention only); girl vampire (villain); a drifter (villain, male vampire, 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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Genres: horror

Character(s): Paul Murdock (death); Richard Murdock (villain, Paul's heir)

Synopsis: Richard Murdock awakens suddenly from his slumber, wondering if someone was snooping around in this unused and closed off wing of the Murdock mansion, once exclusively used by Paul Murdock. He realized that when the insurance company ruled that Paul's disappearance was for good, he'd get the fortune left behind. Later, when the coroner and the servants found the body of Richard in the hallway outside his room, the cause of death was officially listed as fright!

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A Grave Gag!!

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Genres: horror

Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Samuel Westlake (Hiram's brotherdeath); Hiram Westlake (death); Robert Westlake (Hiram's brother); Ezra Westlake (Hiram's brother); Granny; unnamed minister; Lisa Westlake (Robert's wife, death); Jonah Westlake (a jokester, Hiram's brother, death)

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); Hendrick Villhem (cheese-maker, death); Prince's butler; Bradbury Prince (villain, cheese factory owner, death)

Synopsis: The owner of a cheese factory murders his partner, Hendrick Villhem, by shoving him into a cheese vat in order to avoid sharing the profits with him. 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---then the trap springs shut!

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