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Issue Details

Issue #28
Published November-December 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Albert B. Feldstein
Notes Last issue.

Cover Details

Characters The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Genre Horror
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Notes Last issue.
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

1 page text article "In Memoriam"

Synopsis Notice of cancellation of New Trend titles.
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside front cover.
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

7 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "The Prude"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis A man in an adulterous relationship deals with the guilt of his mistresses' suicide by campaigning against all forms of public affection until he finally has a law passed requiring separate cemeteries for men and women. The good women will not stand for this however, and they unbury themselves during the night to rebury themselves next to their mates. At first he doesn't believe the gravedigger when he relates what is happening so he stays in the cemetery at night and observes them rise. His former mistress drags him back into her grave.
Genre Horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

6 page The Vault of Horror! story "Numbskull"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis This story is told by the skull of a sadistic animal trapper in Africa who traps animals only in order to inflict pain on them before he kills them. One day he falls victim to one of his own pit traps and as various sorts of animals gather round, the ants strip his flesh clean.
Genre Horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Bernard Krigstein
Inks Bernard Krigstein
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

1 page text article "A Collector's E.C. Check-List"

Script Carl Wessler
Letters Typeset
Notes List of Titles, issues numbers and dates of New Trend crime and horror titles.
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

5 page Haunt of Fear story "Audition"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis One girl so desperately wants to be in Phil Vitale's all-girl orchestra that she is willing to kill herself so he gives her a lethal injection that makes her into a zombie. She assumes that they are all zombies and she doesn't care because she still wants to be in the band, and in a way, she gets her wish as they turn out to be Phil Vitale's all-ghoul orchestra.
Genre Horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

1 page text story "500 Teeth"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

8 page The Crypt of Terror story "A Work of Art!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man is so unsatisfied with the commercial attitudes of his fellow morticians, including that of the son-in-law he fruitlessly tried to impart a sense of art, that he builds his own robot mortician to euthanize him and do a job he himself would be proud of.
Genre Horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)