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Issue Details

Issue #43
Published August-September 1954
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) #27 (March 1999)

8 page The Crypt of Terror story "Four-Way Split"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis An air freight business partner who used to man a bombsite during the war kills his partner by dropping him out of the plane directly where four states meet, knowing he will go free as they squabble over the jurisdiction of the crime. The corpse comes back and gives him a taste of four different execution methods with the last one being final.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (March 1999)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "Cold War"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man marries into a family of zombies.
Genre Horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (March 1999)

1 page text story "Inside Story"

Letters typeset

6 page story "Clots My Line"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A television show about guessing the guest's occupation brings on the manufacturer of red ink. As the panel asks more questions of the guest, they begin to grow annoyed with the host, as the answers seem to dance around the idea that the guest may be a vampire. The host assures the panel the man has a legitimate occupation, but they feel the host has double-crossed them. The host is delighted he has stumped the panel and reveals to the guest what he's won, a coffin, which surprises the guest. The panel descend upon him and drain his blood, relieved that he's not one of them.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (March 1999)

7 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "Accidents and Old Lace"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis An art dealer murders a man in order to inspire three old sisters who create beautiful tapestries upon witnessing violent death. He goes to check up on them and finds them not working as they claim to be uninspired. He becomes frustrated with them and admits he murdered the man before he sent his car smashing into the wall. They become angry with him for tricking them, saying murder isn't fair. It has to be an accident, like when they pushed father under the train, and the next man into the path of a car and "what is going to happen to you!" They dismember the art dealer and weave his body parts into a tapestry.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (March 1999)