Dates
- Cover date
- January-February 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Creep Course · The Witch's Cauldron! · 8 pages
A sorority girl tries to swing her ancient civilizations course with her good looks, but unfortunately for her, the professor is really into mummification.
- No Silver Atoll! · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
A plane goes down in the ocean and the passengers make for an atoll where the captain announces they have a gun and a medical kit. People's belongings begin to go missing and they realize that what is being stolen is silver. Two people are attacked and killed and they come to believe there is a werewolf among the passengers. Although the werewolf thinks he is safe by having stolen the silver belt buckles and coins, he overlooks the silver nitrate in the medical kit hypodermic which his third attempted victim shoves into his chest.
- Breeze! · 1 pages
A Russian spy thinks it was a breeze that he swiped some blueprints from a military base, but when he flees a security guard he ends up hiding in a high velocity wind tunnel where the powerful winds tear him apart.
- Hansel and Gretel! · The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale! · 6 pages
This grim fairy tale tells the REAL truth that Hansel and Gretel pushed the old woman into the roaring stove in order to steal her money.
- Country Clubbing! · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
An escaped convict beats in a woman's skull with a club in order to steal her food out in a shack set in the swamp. The convict looks up from his meal, only to see a huge hulking brute of a man looking at him. He flees in terror only to have the brute follow him clutching the club. He faces several dangers of the swamp, yet still the brute pursues with the club. Finally, he can go no further, and begs for mercy. The brute ignores his pleas and hands him back the club telling him he forgot it at his house and leaving him mentally unhinged from the stress.
Reprinted in
The Haunt of Fear (1954), E.C. Classic Reprint (1973), Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)