| Issue | #42 |
| Published | June-July 1954 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | William M. Gaines |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset) |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Colors | ? |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (December 1998) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A violinist who has read Midnight Mess in Tales from the Crypt 35 suspects that the Transylvania town he has come to visit his old teacher in has a werewolf infestation problem, but his suspicions do not go deep enough, as he overlooks his teacher who replaces his submachine gun with a violin. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (December 1998) |
| Characters | The Vault-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A man who has just flown in into New York from Illinois ties up a man he suspects of being a vampire just before dawn and makes him lie in a coffin. When he doesn't fall asleep at dawn, he unties him, and the vampire leaps for his throat reminding him that Illinois is an hour behind New York and he forgot to reset his watch. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Jack Kamen |
| Inks | Jack Kamen |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (December 1998) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A servant of the owner of a silver mine fills his bath with piranha after the mine owner unknowningly works the servant's younger brother to death and shoots his parents who were attempting to extract revenge. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Bernie Krigstein |
| Inks | Bernie Krigstein |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (December 1998) |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host) |
| Synopsis | A woman commits suicide when her fiancee's younger brother gets drunk and rapes her. The older brother cuts his head off and uses it as the car ornament that the younger brother had asked him for. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Graham Ingels |
| Inks | Graham Ingels |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #26 (December 1998) |