Dates
- Cover date
- November-December 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- In Memoriam · 1 pages
An editorial on how the horror and shock books are being cancelled due to the community and congressional backlash against these type of books. Also how EC Comics would continue with "New New Trend" titles (later renamed "New Direction" titles).
- The Prude · The Witch's Cauldron! · 7 pages
A man in an adulterous relationship deals with the guilt of his mistresses' suicide by campaigning against all forms of public affection until he finally has a law passed requiring separate cemeteries for men and women. The good women will not stand for this however, and they unbury themselves during the night to rebury themselves next to their mates. At first he doesn't believe the gravedigger when he relates what is happening so he stays in the cemetery at night and observes them rise. His former mistress drags him back into her grave.
- Numbskull · The Vault of Horror! · 6 pages
This story is told by the skull of a sadistic animal trapper in Africa who traps animals only in order to inflict pain on them before he kills them, all to seek revenge for a cheating business partner, cheating wife, his brother and his father. One day he falls victim to one of his own pit traps and as various sorts of animals gather round, the ants strip his flesh clean.
- A Collector's E.C. Check-List · 1 pages
- Audition · Haunt of Fear · 5 pages
One girl so desperately wants to be in Phil Vitale's all-girl orchestra that she is willing to kill herself so he gives her a lethal injection that makes her into a zombie. She assumes that they are all zombies and she doesn't care because she still wants to be in the band, and in a way, she gets her wish as they turn out to be Phil Vitale's all-ghoul orchestra.
- 500 Teeth · 1 pages
A man robs a home and gets attacked by a mob of cute miniature Doberman Pinschers, who kill him by biting him with their combined 500 teeth.
- A Work of Art! · The Crypt of Terror · 8 pages
A man is so unsatisfied with the commercial attitudes of his fellow morticians, including that of the son-in-law he fruitlessly tried to impart a sense of art, that he builds his own robot mortician to euthanize him and do a job he himself would be proud of.
Reprinted in
Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022)