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Issue: The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear #2
Publication Date: August 2022
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
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Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Books
On Sale Date: 08/10/2022
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Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781506721132
UPC/EAN: 978150672113251999
Price: $25.99 CAD
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Content Items: 77 (30 stories, 3 covers)
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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): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
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Introduction

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Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
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Look For This Seal...

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Room For One More!

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Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Hee, hee! Yep! It's me again!
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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Story was inspired by one chapter in Bennett Cerf's book, "Try and Stop M: A Collection of Antedotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous", titled "Trail of the Tingling Spine".

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The Basket!

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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)
First Line: Now that you've tasted the sickly brew of that ugly crone...
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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Based on the story "The Mannikin" by Robert Bloch.
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Adventure Fans!

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The Damaged Goddess

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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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Horror In the School Room

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Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Here's a touching tale of...
Synopsis: Andy's friend Magog devours Andy's teacher after he hits Andy with a switch.
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Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Based on the story "Thus I Refute Beelzy" by John Collier.
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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)
First Line: Pfah! Now that you've finished that wishy-washy pot of gook...
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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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)
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Hounded To Death!

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Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Hee, hee! Welcome again, my dear little fiends!
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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Based on the story "The Kennel" by Maurice Level.
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The Very Strange Mummy!

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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
First Line: I see by the mail that many of you like mummy stories!
Synopsis: Explorers discover a vampire entombed as a mummy. They stake it.
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Unguarded!

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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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Diminishing Returns!

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Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Here's a cutting horror yarn I'm sure will rate tops with you!
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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Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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The Irony of Death!

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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)
First Line: Now that my fellow GhouLunatics have finished their inane narrations...
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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Based on the story "The Squaw" by Bram Stoker.
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Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Irwin Durd (death); Elliot Unger (death)
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Warts So Horrible?

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First Line: Hee, hee! Greetings, fear fans!
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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Loosely inspired by "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.
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Forbidden Fruit

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First Line: Heh, heh! Greetings, ghouls!
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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Loosely based on "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson.
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Genius

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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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The Age-Old Story!

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Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Here's a disgusting new wrinkle in...
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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The Gorilla's Paw!

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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)
First Line: Now I see it's my spot to 'guest' in the Old Witch's mad-mag!
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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A black humor version of "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs.
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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)
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Graham Ingels

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Grave Business!

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Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Hee, hee! Yep!
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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Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Based on the story "Breakdown" by Louis Pollock.
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The Vamp!

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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)
First Line: Heh, heh! Well, creeping corpses!
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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Hot Time!

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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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My Uncle Ekar!

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Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: The brat insists, "I just want to murder people just like..."
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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Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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Bum Steer!

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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)
First Line: Heh, heh! Greetings, ghouls!
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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Jack Kamen

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Ooze in the Cellar?

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Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Hee, hee! I see by your pale wide-eyed puss...
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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The Acid Test!

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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
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First Line: Heh, heh! This is your host in the Vault of Horror...
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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Nightmare!

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First Line: This last week had been a nightmare, John Bradbury thought to himself...
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Extermination

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First Line: Here's a tale that should drive you bugs!
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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Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow!

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Irwin Durd (death); Elliot Unger (death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Yep!
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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Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Floyd (death); curio shop keeper (death); Joe (Floyd's friend, death); Eddie (Floyd's friend)
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Al Feldstein

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Poetic Justice!

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Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Hee, hee! Stubborn, eh?
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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...On a Dead Man's Chest!

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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)
First Line: Heh, heh! Yep! It's the Vault-Keeper again!
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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Brat

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Synopsis: A kid builds a flame thrower and kills his mom's criminal boyfriend.
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Till Death Do We Part!

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Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Here's a spirited yarn!
Synopsis: "The Sixth Sense" with a burglar instead of a psychologist.
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What's Cookin'?

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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)
First Line: Heh, heh! I see by your drooling faces...
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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