Dates
- Cover date
- November-December 1950
- On sale
- October 10, 1950
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Hunchback! · 7 pages
Roger is visiting a small town and runs into an old college chum of his, Peter Goglo......a man whom the town's people claim to be a ghoul. In fact, the man has a ghoulish undeveloped twin growing out of his back that is a flesh eater.......a ghoul that eventually kills its host!
- Fire · 1 pages
A man has developed a super-powerful fire-bomb.....a bomb he intends to use to kill his wife for her insurance money as well as the surrounding populace. But fate has a real shock and surprise for him!
- The Tunnel of Terror! · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
Linda Cross takes her brother Paul south of the border for relaxation to forestall a nervous breakdown. Unfortunately for Linda, it happens anyway, and Paul gives in to his ghoulish desires.
- Cunning · 1 pages
The Camp was considered to be THE model concentration camp used by the Nazis. Now, the Gestapo Detachment had abandoned it and it was literally being destroyed by Allied aircraft with only the now blind Kanzler still there. Determined to make himself safe from the bombing, he decides to find safety in the gas chamber.....not the wisest move!
- The Living Mummy · The Haunt of Fear · 6 pages
Three scientists succeed in reviving a mummy who then proceeds to kill two of them with the third running over a cliff in a panic.
- Man from the Grave! · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
An artist in desperate financial straights shoves a man's face into a vat of etching acid in order to acquire his paints. Before he dies, he curses the artist to keep painting up to the point he drops dead... and beyond.
Reprinted in
The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear (2021), Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019)