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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published May-June 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Albert B.Feldstein

Cover Details

Genre Horror
Pencils Johnny Craig
Inks Johnny Craig
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #1 (November 1992)

8 page Haunt of Fear story "The Wall"

Synopsis A story similar to Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat with a few themes from The Telltale Heart mixed in.
Genre Horror
Pencils Johnny Craig
Inks Johnny Craig
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #1 (November 1992)

6 page story "House of Horror"

Synopsis Three college freshmen disappear one night as part of a frat hazing at a local haunted house.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Harvey Kurtzman
Inks Harvey Kurtzman
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Tales From the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #21 (December 1950/January 1951); In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #1 (November 1992); in Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #5 (September 1993)

2 page text story "Out of the Grave"

Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Notes Adapted in Tales From the Crypt reprints as full 8 page story sequence re-titled as "The Thing From the Grave".
Reprinted In Tales From the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #22 (February/March 1951); In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #1 (November 1992); in Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #6 (December 1993)

7 page Haunt of Fear story "The Mad Magician"

Synopsis A mad magician who enjoys sawing people in half.
Genre Horror
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Harry Harrison
Inks Wallace Wood
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #1 (November 1992)

7 page Haunt of Fear story "The Thing in the Swamp!"

Synopsis A Blob-type story.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Albert B. Feldstein
Inks Albert B. Feldstein
Colors Marie Severin
Notes Splash page and last panel altered to The Old Witch in Vault of Horror reprints, although character still in green robe like the Vault-Keeper. The Old Witch usually had a red robe.
Reprinted in Vault of Horror (EC, 1950 series) #15 (October-November 1950); in Vault of Horror, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1; in Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #1 (November 1992); in Vault of Horror (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #4 (July 1993)