| Issue | #13 |
| Published | May-June 1952 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Albert B. Feldstein |
| 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) #13 (November 1995) |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host) |
| Synopsis | A man envious of the accolades showered upon the dead at their funerals resolves to slay the town's richest man so he can substitute for the corpse and enjoy the pomp and circumstance. He uses a knife to disfigure the victim so that a closed casket request will be made and then he takes his place in the coffin. Unfortunately for him, the deceased's final instructions entailed cremation. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein |
| Pencils | Graham Ingels |
| Inks | Graham Ingels |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (November 1995) |
| Characters | The Vault-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A sword-swallower marries a man who becomes obese over time by spending all the money she earns with her act on food. She gets revenge by encouraging him to learn the act and when he's got the blade down his throat, she binds his hands in the dressing room and leaves him to the inevitable gas his gluttony has made him liable to. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein ? |
| Pencils | Johnny Craig |
| Inks | Johnny Craig |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (November 1995); in Vault of Horror (Ballantine Books, 1965 series) #U2107 |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host) |
| Synopsis | The neighborhood boys are curious that the new kid on the block never comes out to play. Ezra's uncle leaves the house every night with a carton under his arm, and when the kids read in the paper of some vampire killings, they assume the man is the vampire so they follow him one night and observe him kill someone and drain their blood into the jug he keeps in the carton. Now that they know he is the vampire they figure he doesn't let Ezra come out for fear of speaking to the authorities. The children resolve to stake the vampire through the heart the next day, which they do, only to discover Ezra sleeping peacefully in a coffin in the cellar with the drained jar of blood next to him. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein |
| Pencils | Jack Kamen |
| Inks | Jack Kamen |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (November 1995) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | Travelers in a sleigh just a few scant miles outside a town on the Russian steppes find themselves beset by a pack of wolves. The officer in the sleigh has a rifle with two bullets left that kills two wolves buying them some time to get closer to the town as the pack pauses in their pursuit to devour the fresh kills. An old man was bringing a package of meat to some relatives that he tosses to the pack when they are just a few miles short of the town. The driver realizes they aren't going to make it, and proposes that one of them, the officer, a woman and her new baby, or the old man sacrifice themselves in order to save the others. One of them is hurled into the pack of slavering beasts but the story leaves it up to the reader to decide who. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (November 1995) |