Dates
- Cover date
- May-June 1953
- On sale
- March 17, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Sucker Bait! · The Witch's Cauldron! · 8 pages
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.
- Lover, Come Hack to Me! · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
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.
- Incendiary! · 1 pages
An arsonist accidentally sets himself on fire.
- Double-Header! · The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale! · 6 pages
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.
- Foul Play! · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
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.
Reprinted in
Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1991), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019), EC Horror Library of the 1950's (1970), Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! (2005)