Dates
- Cover date
- November-December 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Wish You Were Here · The Witch's Cauldron! · 8 pages
A needy couple picks up a jade statue guaranteeing that it grants three wishes so she wishes for money. The husband remembers a story he once read called 'The Monkey's Paw' and tells her not to wish for it, but she does anyway. Later, Jason is killed in an accident, and the wife gets his insurance money. She wishes him back to life before the accident, but since he died of a heart attack prior to the accident, he doesn't live again. Distraught, the wife now just wishes him back to life: with horrifying results!
- Chess-Mate · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
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.
- Hot Reception! · 1 pages
A moonshiner is using molten lead to make bullets for his gun to fight the law if they dare to come after his stills. But the idiot accidently burns his hand in the molten liquid so he can't use his gun.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale! · 6 pages
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.
- Model Nephew · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
A nephew murders his uncle for his money and winds up a prisoner in one of his ship-in-a-bottles.
Reprinted in
Haunt of Fear (1985), The Vault of Horror (1990), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The Vault of Horror (1965), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022)