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Issue Details

Issue #46
Published February-March 1955
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) #30 (December 1999)

1 page text article "In Memoriam"

Script Al Feldstein ?
Letters typeset

8 page The Crypt of Terror story "Upon Reflection"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host); The Old Witch (cameo); The Vault-Keeper (cameo)
Synopsis The mayor of a small town vows revenge upon a werewolf that kills his wife. On the night of the next full moon he and his posse encounter a woman they suspect may be the culprit so he returns to his library to check on the signs of a werewolf in human form. When he enters the darkened room, he sees the werewolf's snarling face looming in front of him. He empties his rifle full of silver bullets into the monster and is astonished that silver bullets didn't kill it. His posse hears the shots and when they enter and turn on the lights, they see the mayor werewolf standing in front of a full length mirror.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #30 (December 1999)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "Blind Alleys"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis The blind victims of an unscrupulous and cruel director lock him and his dog up for several days without food and then release them into a maze with razor blades embedded into the walls. And then turn out the lights.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #30 (December 1999); In Tales From the Crypt (Ballantine Books, 1964 series) #U2106

1 page text story "Gone To Seed"

Letters typeset

6 page story "Success Story"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A woman and her parents move in with a man they nag constantly to get ahead in the world because he can't afford their demands for gadgets. Eventually the nagging pushes him over the edge and returns from the kitchen brandishing the meat cleaver. He giggles to the arresting officers "I not only got ahead, I got three heads." as they look over the three severed heads on silver platters in the dining room.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #30 (December 1999)

7 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "Tatter Up!"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis A man is murdered by a creature made out of old rags in retaliation for killing the woman who was kind to the rag creature.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #30 (December 1999)