Dates
- Cover date
- March-April 1951
- On sale
- February 9, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- A Strange Undertaking... · 8 pages
Ezra Deepley is an undertaker who feels he has suffered injustice at the hands of influential town citizens so when they die during an epidemic of disease, Ezra takes advantage of the situation to revenge himself upon their corpses. But soon, the five corpses rise and get their revenge on Ezra.
- So They Finally Pinned You Down! · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
A drifter is "turned" by a vampire, but doesn't understand this strange new condition and powerful urges, so he attempts to track the woman down. He continually feels that he has found her at last only to realize his mistake when he has slaked his blood thirst upon his latest victim. Eventually the citizens discover his hiding place and pound a stake through his heart and he dies without ever fully comprehending what has happened to him.
- Marsh Sand · 1 pages
Richard Murdock awakens suddenly from his slumber, wondering if someone was snooping around in this unused and closed-off wing of the Murdock mansion, once exclusively used by Paul Murdock. He realized that when the insurance company ruled that Paul's disappearance was for good, he'd get the fortune left behind. Later, when the coroner and the servants found the body of Richard in the hallway outside his room, the cause of death was officially listed as fright!
- A Grave Gag!! · 6 pages
An unpopular family member with a penchant for playing practical jokes on the occasion of family member's funerals outsmarts himself when he takes the place of his brother's dead wife in her coffin and the family refuse to view his screams as anything but another gag, thus burying him alive.
- Cheese, That's Horrible! · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
The owner of a cheese factory murders his partner, Hendrick Villhem, by shoving him into a cheese vat in order to avoid sharing the profits with him. He dreams of being pursued by glowing cat's eyes and crawls across a mouse trap baited with cheese from which dangle the hands of his partner---then the trap springs shut!
Reprinted in
The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear (2021), Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022)