Dates
- Cover date
- July-August 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- A Little Stranger! · The Witch's Cauldron! · 8 pages
A female vampire and a male werewolf fall in love and take to hunting the hill country together, seeing each other once a month when the moon affects his transformation. They hope to find someone who can marry them. He protects her coffin during the day by moving it, but one day the villagers catch up to them, and put a silver bullet into his heart and a stake through her's and bury them in the devil's graveyard. That night, the graves erupt as they arise from their graves, are married, with a mausoleum as their honeymoon suite. Almost a year later, Elicia gives birth to the Old Witch.
- Take Your Pick! · The Vault of Horror! · 7 pages
A woman with a miser for a husband loses her marbles after enduring countless acts of 'ice-heartedness' and takes an ice-pick to his chest.
- Bee-Nip! · 1 pages
The assistant of a scientist murders him and steals a vial from him which could be worth a fortune. The vial contains a liquid that will attract bees by a hundred fold to any object its applied to, thus increasing honey production. When the lab is being searched by the police investigating the murder, the assistant smears the fluid on his face so he won't be caught with the stolen vial. When he leaves the building, thousands of stinging bees swarm his face turning it into a pulpy mush.
- Ship-Shape! · 6 pages
Four occupants of a small plane find they need to ditch in the ocean. They inflate a life raft and come upon a derelict drifting at sea. The ship is completely covered with a strange fungus and one of them makes the mistake of trying to sample it with a pocket knife. Upon tearing the membrane a digestive-like fluid spills over him, dissolving him alive. Two of them make it back to the life raft, and are spotted by a search plane, unfortunately the raft is now infected with the fungus as it was moored to the derelict.
- This Little Piggy... · The Crypt of Terror · 7 pages
A British officer visits his uncle in India during the occupation. His uncle warns him off hunting the wild boars in the area which are sacred to the natives. He disregards him and kills a boar, then prepares it by boiling the hair off, roasting it upon a spit, and finally serving it on a plate with an apple in its mouth. A native servant present during the dinner witnesses this and is horrified. The uncle apologizes to the native head, but word gets out, and though the officer is to leave the area tomorrow, the natives get hold of him and give him the same treatment.
Reprinted in
EC Classics (1985), Haunt of Fear (1985), Haunt of Fear (1991), Haunt of Fear (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Portfolio (1971), Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (1971), Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (1971)