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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published March-April 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) #24 (August 1998)

8 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes..."

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis A blob story that features a cuckolded moonshine-swilling mountain man as the vengeful blob creature that is created when his wife and her lover shove him into a still to drown and be dissolved with a bag of lye.
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (August 1998)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "...Only Sin Deep"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A heartless young woman pawns her beauty for 1000.00 to a shopkeeper she assumes is a crank. When she realizes that he has somehow caused her face to age rapidly she attempts to redeem the pawn ticket, but since he knows that she is now married to a wealthy man he demands 100000.00 for it. She knows she can't ask her husband for that much money out of the blue so she resolves to take her belongings and sell them and tell her husband they were stolen. He comes home early and assumes the old crone packing the furs is a thief so she kills him figuring there's plenty of other men to victimize. She forgets that the servants heard her voice when she entered the building and now the police are looking for her, so she can never redeem her pawn ticket if she wants to avoid being arrested for murder.
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (August 1998)

1 page text story "Nest Egg"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin
Letters Typeset

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

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Notes Recap of suit against E.C. by Gilberton Publishing (Classics Illustrated), to prevent use of "Classics" in the title of "Three-Dimensional E.C. Classics".

6 page Haunt of Fear story "The Secret"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis A young boy is adopted by a couple who turn out to be vampires and only want to fatten him up to drain his blood. The surprise is on them, though, as he turns out to be a werewolf and tears them to shreds.
Genre Horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (August 1998)

5 page The Crypt of Terror story "Head-Room!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A landlady falls for the Jekyll of a Jekyll-n-Hyde type, and when she discovers his closet of severed heads, she becomes his seventh victim.
Genre Horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Notes ?
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (August 1998)