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Issue Details

Issue #26
Published July-August 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) #26 (February 1999)

1 page text article "Are You a Red Dupe?"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Letters Typeset
Notes Tongue in cheek attempt to link efforts to destroy comics to Communists.

8 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "Marriage Vow"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis A woman who was murdered by her husband for her money comes back from the dead to fulfill her wifely role in a zombified way. He begs her to return to the grave and says he is sorry but she refuses saying "till death do us part means both of us die. Not just one." while calling him to bed.
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (February 1999)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "The Shadow Knows"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man murders his wife making it look like a suicide in order to marry a wealthy woman. As he leaves her grave site in the evening he notices he has picked up an unwanted companion, his dead wife's shadow. At first the shadow ruins his relationship with the wealthy woman, then strangles her while framing her husband by appearing to a policeman around a corner to be a victim's shadow being strangled by the husband's shadow. The husband tells the truth on the stand but obviously the jury doesn't believe him and he is executed and buried next to his dead wife. Only then does her shadow return to the grave and rest.
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (February 1999)

1 page text story "Hot Head"

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 "Spoiled"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis The wife of a brilliant surgeon and her lover have cause to regret their affair when the doctor cuts off their heads and places the woman's head on the man's body and the man's head on the woman's body.
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (February 1999)

8 page The Crypt of Terror story "Comes The Dawn!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man who has barricaded himself in an unprovisioned Arctic cabin with a vampire outside feels he's safe since he can leave once the sun comes up until he remembers that the Arctic nights can be very long...
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (February 1999)