Dates
- Cover date
- July-August 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Are You a Red Dupe? · 1 pages
This editorial illustrated page purports that the Communists are the ones trying to destroy the comic magazine industry, citing the Soviet "Daily Worker" newspaper and Dr. Frederick Wertham.
- Marriage Vow · The Witch's Cauldron! · 8 pages
A woman who was murdered by her husband for her money comes back from the dead to fulfill her wifely role in a zombified way. He begs her to return to the grave and says he is sorry but she refuses saying "....till death do us part. That means both of us die! Not just one!" while calling him to bed.
- The Shadow Knows · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
A man murders his own wife in order to marry a wealthy woman. As he leaves her grave site in the evening he notices he has picked up an unwanted companion, his dead wife's shadow. At first the shadow ruins his relationship with the wealthy woman, then strangles her while framing her husband by appearing to a policeman around a corner to be a victim's shadow being strangled by the husband's shadow. The husband tells the truth on the stand but the jury doesn't believe him and he is executed and buried next to his dead wife. Only then does her shadow return to the grave and rest.
- Hot Head · 1 pages
A murderer tries to hide in the coal car on a train, but accidently gets sent down the coal chute into the furnace with the rest of the coal.
- Spoiled · Haunt of Fear · 6 pages
The wife of a brilliant surgeon and her lover have cause to regret their affair when the doctor cuts off their heads and places the woman's head on the man's body and the man's head on the woman's body.
- Comes The Dawn! · The Crypt of Terror · 8 pages
A man who has barricaded himself in an unprovisioned Arctic cabin with a vampire outside feels he's safe since he can leave once the sun comes up until he remembers that the Arctic nights can be very long...
Reprinted in
Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)