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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published May-June 1954
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) #25 (November 1998)

8 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "The New Arrival"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis This story is told by a mansion. The occupant is a lunatic old woman who lost her mind when her husband was killed in WWI and kept her new born infant uneducated and in shackles for 40 years. But this night, her 'baby' is dying, and a luckless traveler is clubbed into unconscious and when he awakens, finds that he has become the new 'baby.'
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (November 1998)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "Indisposed!"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man uses his new garbage disposal to eliminate the remains of his wife's body, but his plumber friend who installed it doesn't have experience and connects it to the water intake, so when one of the man's friends tries to get a glass of water his wife's gory remains come oozing out.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein ?
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Colors Marie Severin
Notes Script likely by Feldstein.
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (November 1998)

1 page text story "Way To Die!"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin
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 "Out Cold"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis The old witch tells us a story with two endings. The first ending relates what would have happened to the protagonist if he had pursued a relationship with a new office girl who turns out to be a ghoul using human meat to feed her mother's cats, but the old witch tells us that's not what actually happened. What actually happened was he was so taken with her beauty he mistakenly tumbled out of an open window 20 stories to a very easy death while being cursed for his stupidity by the girl.
Genre Horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (November 1998)

7 page The Crypt of Terror story "The Light In His Life!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man snowbound in an Alaskan cabin makes his obese wife into candles and oil for him to read by.
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (November 1998)