Dates
- Cover date
- November-December 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Nobody There! · The Witch's Cauldron! · 8 pages
A man blackmails a doctor into transplanting his head onto another man's body, at first to avoid deformity and eventually to achieve immortality. By the time of the fourth operation the doctor is old enough not to be concerned about the possibility of blackmail, and wracked by guilt of the three killings over the years, leaves the separated head to die on the surgical table.
- A Creep in the Deep! · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
A man's wife is attacked by a vampire while she is out in a rowboat in the middle of a lake and he is spear fishing. When he later returns to the lake, he hears of strange killings where the victims have been drained of blood and realizes that his wife must have been turned into one of the undead and now resides in the lake. He sharpens his spear and returns to the lake to stake her through the heart and bring her peace.
- Dukes in Disguise · 1 pages
In the 15th century, two Italian nobles hate and are jealous of each other. Aldo is jealous of Gino's plumed exotic birds while Gino is jealous of Aldo's vineyards. To win the affections of a beautiful woman they both love, each attempts to sneak into the other's kingdom and steal a plumed bird's feather and a bottle of wine respectively. Both dukes get caught and are murdered by the others duke's guards.
- ...From Hunger! · The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale! · 6 pages
The chef of an obese king finally gets fed up with him and converts him into sausages.
- The Coffin! · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
A man builds an automatic coffin to lower the cost of funerals. The coffin plays music, reads a service, and unfortunately for his sponging kid brother who lies down in it, drains the corpse's blood, injects formaldehyde, and buries itself with shovel attachments on its side.
Reprinted in
Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1991), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The Autumn People (1965), The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear (2021), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022)