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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published March-April 1951
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 Johnny Craig
Inks Johnny Craig
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #6 (February 1994)

8 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "A Strange Undertaking..."

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis Ezra Deepley is an undertaker who feels he has suffered injustice at the hands of influential town citizens so when they die during an epidemic of disease, Ezra takes advantage of the situation to revenge himself upon their corpses.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Notes E.C.'s first Bradbury swipe. Swipe of "The Handler".
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #6 (February 1994)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "So They Finally Pinned You Down!"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A drifter is 'turned' by a vampire. He doesn't understand this strange new condition and powerful urges so he attempts to track the woman down. He continually feels that he has found her at last only to realize his mistake when he has slaked his blood thirst upon his latest victim. Eventually the citizens discover his hiding place and pound a stake through his heart and he dies without ever fully comprehending what has happened to him.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #6 (February 1994)

1 page text story "Marsh Sand"

Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset

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

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #6 (February 1994)

6 page Haunt of Fear story "A Grave Gag!!"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis An unpopular family member with a penchant for playing practical jokes on the occasion of family member's funerals outsmarts himself when he takes the place of his brother's dead wife in her coffin and the family refuse to view his screams as anything but another gag, thus burying him alive.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #6 (February 1994)

7 page The Crypt of Terror story "Cheese, That's Horrible!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis The owner of a cheese factory murders his partner by shoving him into a cheese vat in order to avoid sharing the profits. He dreams of being pursued by glowing cat's eyes and crawls across a mouse trap baited with cheese from which dangle the hands of his partner.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #6 (February 1994)