Dates
- Cover date
- March-April 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes... · The Witch's Cauldron! · 8 pages
A blob story that features a cuckolded moonshine-swilling mountain man as the vengeful blob creature that is created when his wife and her lover shove him into a still to drown and be dissolved with a bag of lye. In the end, both Bethy and her lover suffer death from Jake's revenge.
- ...Only Sin Deep · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
A heartless young woman pawns her beauty for 1000.00 to a shopkeeper she assumes is a crank. When she realizes that he has somehow caused her face to age rapidly she attempts to redeem the pawn ticket, but since he knows that she is now married to a wealthy man he demands 100000.00 for it. She knows she can't ask her husband for that much money out of the blue so she resolves to take her belongings and sell them and tell her husband they were stolen. He comes home early and assumes the old crone packing the furs is a thief so she kills him figuring there's plenty of other men to victimize. She forgets that the servants heard her voice when she entered the building and now the police are looking for her, so she can never redeem her pawn ticket if she wants to avoid being arrested for murder.
- Nest Egg · 1 pages
A thief breaks into the home of brothers who are hoarders. While digging through a room full of rotted clothing looking for valuables, a swarm of moths fly out and kill him.
- The Secret · The Old Witch · 6 pages
A young boy is adopted by a couple who turn out to be vampires and only want to fatten him up to drain his blood. The surprise is on them, though, as he turns out to be a werewolf and tears them to shreds.
- Head-Room! · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
A landlady falls for the Jekyll of a Jekyll-n-Hyde type, and when she discovers his closet of severed heads, she becomes his seventh victim.
Reprinted in
Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)