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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published January-February 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Albert B. Feldstein

Cover Details

Characters The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Genre Horror
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (May 1995)

1 page text article "The E.C. Artist of the Issue - Jack Kamen"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover. Photo and biography.

8 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "Ooze in the Cellar?"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis 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.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (May 1995)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "The Acid Test!"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis 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.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (May 1995)

1 page text story "Nightmare!"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset

1 page The Old Witch's Niche letters page "Letters page"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset

6 page Haunt of Fear story "Extermination"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis 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.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (May 1995)

7 page The Crypt of Terror story "Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis 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.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Notes This is the first story the Crypt Keeper interrupts repeatedly.
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (May 1995)