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Issue Details

Issue #29
Published April-May 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing William M. Gaines

Cover Details

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
Genre Horror
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (September 1995)

1 page text article "Jack Davis"

Script Al Feldstein
Letters typeset
Notes EC Artist of the Month

8 page The Crypt of Terror story "Grounds...For Horror!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A young boy's bullying butcher step-father locks him in the closet as punishments. At first he is frighted, but meets a friend named Hozir who lives in the closet and wants to give the step-father what he deserves, but the boy restrains him. Hozir compromises on his suggestions for the step-father and the boy agrees to first, let Hozir push the step-father over, and after the step-father increases his aggression toward the boy, cut off the tip of his finger. One day, when the mother is away at a movie, the step-father takes the opportunity to strike the boy despite his plea 'please don't hit me daddy, Hozir won't like it.' Hozir refuses to heed the boy's pleas for mercy and feeds the step-father through the butcher shop meat grinder.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (September 1995)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "A Rottin' Trick!"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man uses a girl then dumps her and makes the mistake of seeking the help of a boat pilot to leave the country who used to love her before she killed herself. The boat pilot drops him off at an island that serves as a leper colony.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (September 1995)

1 page text story "Werewolf!"

Letters typeset

6 page story "Board To Death!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A woman with a fear of enclosed spaces due to being trapped in a cave-in as a child is driven insane when her cruel husband repeatedly threatens to bury her alive, then finally strikes her, and they have to airlift her to the hospital in a pine box attached to the small plane. Even after the lid is opened, all she sees is the blackness in her mind.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (September 1995)

7 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "A Sucker For a Spider!"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis An embezzling banker who keeps spiders for a hobby is blackmailed by his chief teller who is aware of the embezzlement. The banker invites the teller to stay the night and aggravates a black widow before dropping it beneath the sleeping teller's bed sheets. In the morning, with the teller dead, the banker decides to fly a small plane down to Florida to get out of town for awhile, but the engine conks out over the swamp. He bails out, but when he cuts himself out of his chute, he drops into the web of a giant spider that proceeds to paralyze him and suck him dry.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #13 (September 1995)