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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published July-August 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 Albert B. Feldstein
Inks Albert B. Feldstein
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #8 (August 1994)

8 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "Hounded To Death!"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis A man who keeps hounds starving for the foxhunt catches another guy making time with his wife. The wife tells him to pretend he's had a heart attack so the husband will dump his body down the road, but instead, since the husband is wise to them, he tosses the body into the dog kennel where it is ripped to shreds. The corpse returns to take revenge upon the husband.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #8 (August 1994)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "The Very Strange Mummy!"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis Explorers discover a vampire entombed as a mummy. They stake it.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #8 (August 1994)

1 page text story "Unguarded!"

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

6 page Haunt of Fear story "Diminishing Returns!"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis A man sets up a deal with the Jivaro head-hunter tribe to exchange his duped victims for large uncut diamonds. After his fourth victim is dispatched this way he receives a package at his doorstep. Upon opening the package he is terrified to see that it is the shrunken head of his last dupe. The head opens its eyes and glares at him. He drops the package and the head rolls free and attaches its teeth into his ankles, tripping him. Then the head tears his throat out.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #8 (August 1994)

7 page The Crypt of Terror story "The Irony of Death!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man tosses his steel mill boss into the vat after marrying the bosses' daughter thus inheriting the mill. Two of the ingots get made into an iron maiden for a museum exhibit and when he tries it out for size, it slams shut on him.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #8 (August 1994)