| Issue | #23 |
| Published | April-May 1951 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | William M. Gaines |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Al Feldstein |
| Inks | Al Feldstein |
| Reprinted | In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Al Feldstein |
| Inks | Al Feldstein |
| Reprinted | In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994); In Tales From the Crypt (Ballantine Books, 1964 series) #U2106 |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host); Anna Cooper; Anthony; Mr. Cooper |
| Synopsis | A man gets locked inside a mausoleum and survives nearly a month by catching leaking rain water and devouring the corpse, but succumbs to formaldehyde poisoning. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Graham Ingels |
| Inks | Graham Ingels |
| Reprinted | In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #7 (March 1994); in Vault of Horror (Ballantine Books, 1965 series) #U2107 |
| Genre | Horror |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | NOT reprinted in Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host); Alan Bitsby; Martha Bitsby; Walton Farnum; Agmis Farnum; Mrs. Dober; Doctor Podo; Mr. Hatch |
| Synopsis | Alan Bitsby sets out to prove that a medium is faking by asking him to raise the spirit of his 'departed' wife. Unbeknown to the medium at the time the seance begins, Bitsby's wife is very much alive. The medium goes into a trance and, with a great deal of effort, does succeed in summoning up the spirit of Bitsby's wife, at which point Bitsby triumphantly accuses the bewildered medium of being a fake and leaves. Upon returning home, however, Mrs. Bitsby is found dead as a doornail. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Reprinted | In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #7 (March 1994) |
| Characters | The Vault-Keeper (host); Jay; Bill |
| Synopsis | Jay and Bill witness a forbidden voodoo ceremony and Jay is captured while Bill escapes. Jay later meets up with Bill and they leave Haiti. Bill finds a package at his doorstep and when he opens it he is startled to see it contains a voodoo doll wielding a large pin. It comes to life and attacks Bill. He throws the thing into the fire and rushes into the hall to call Jay. He returns to the fireplace and sees that the doll is nowhere in sight. Jay mocks Bill's hysteria and reveals that he is a zombie sent with the doll to kill Bill. The doll drops down on Bill and jabs him with the pin. At first, Bill is relieved that the doll has gone limp and only barely scratched him, but Jay explains that the pin was poisoned and he has only moments to live. Enraged, Bill rips apart the voodoo doll and is horrified to see that it contains a human heart. Jay gasps out that that was how the natives managed to animate the doll, by cutting out his heart, as both Jay and Bill fall down dead. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Johnny Craig |
| Inks | Johnny Craig |
| Reprinted | In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #7 (March 1994) |