Dates
- Cover date
- April-May 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Jack Davis · 1 pages
- Grounds... for Horror! · The Crypt of Terror · 8 pages
A young boy's bullying butcher step-father locks him in the closet as punishment for various actions. At first, Artie is frighted, but meets a friend named Hozir who lives in the closet and wants to give the step-father what he deserves, but the boy restrains him. Although Hozir compromises on his suggestions for punishments to the step-father which the boy agrees to at first, Samuel Bricker goes too far and Hozir makes him pay for it!
- A Rottin' Trick! · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
A man uses a girl then dumps her and makes the mistake of seeking the help of a boat pilot to leave the country who used to love her before she killed herself. The boat pilot drops him off at an island that serves as a leper colony.
- Werewolf! · 1 pages
Villagers in a Transylvanian mountain are terrified because a monster has been killing people. It turns out the mayor is a werewolf.
- Board to Death! · 6 pages
A woman with a fear of enclosed spaces due to being trapped in a cave-in as a child is driven insane when her cruel husband repeatedly threatens to bury her alive, then finally strikes her, and they have to airlift her to the hospital in a pine box attached to the small plane. Even after the lid is opened, all she sees is the blackness in her mind.
- A Sucker for a Spider! · The Witch's Cauldron! · 7 pages
An embezzling banker who keeps spiders for a hobby is blackmailed by his chief teller who is aware of the embezzlement. The banker invites the teller to stay the night and aggravates a black widow before dropping it beneath the sleeping teller's bed sheets. In the morning, with the teller dead, the banker decides to fly a small plane down to Florida to get out of town for awhile, but the engine conks out over the swamp. He bails out, but when he cuts himself out of his chute, he drops into the web of a giant spider that proceeds to paralyze him and suck him dry.
Reprinted in
Tales from the Crypt (1950), Tales from the Crypt (1979), Tales from the Crypt (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (2021)