Dates
- Cover date
- January-February 1952
- On sale
- December 7, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Jack Kamen · The EC "Artist of the Issue" · 1 pages
- Ooze in the Cellar? · 8 pages
A miser creates a blob-like creature in his cellar by mixing in the remains of his wife with those of a mouse, a cat, and mounds of refuse.
- The Acid Test! · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
A woman grows to hate her doting husband so much that she throws a bottle of acid into his face, blinding and disfiguring him. During her trial, he professes to still love her and makes excuses for her action. Her lawyer advises her to play along, and she acts convincingly, so the jury lets her off. Unfortunately for her, her husband was only acting on the witness stand as well, in order to prevent her being sent to prison, so he could pour a bottle of acid into her face.
- Nightmare! · 1 pages
A man has a nightmare that he's a vampire. Turns out he really is one.
- Extermination · 6 pages
An exterminator has a dream after coming home from a job that he spots a cockroach on his floor. He gets up and strides over to it, bringing his shoe heel down upon the bug, whereupon it emits an ear-piercing shriek. This acts as a signal for all the bugs and rats the exterminator has ever killed to come pouring out of the walls and overwhelm him. Just as he is about to expire, he wakes up and sees a cockroach on the floor. Feeling annoyed at himself for having such an absurd dream, he crosses the floor and brings his shoe down upon it, whereupon the roach...screams.
- Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow! · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
Two business partners who own a fertilizer factory next to a cemetery decide to tunnel under ground into the caskets in order to fill a large order for bone meal fertilizer. After they succeed in filling the order, they decide to take a vacation upstate, but the car conks out beside a farm's corn patch. They move through the corn patch, which happens to have been fertilized by the order they filled, towards the farmhouse but do not make it as the corn husks become animated and beat them to death.
Reprinted in
The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear (2015), Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear (2021), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019)