Haunt of Fear Annual TPB (1994-1999 Gemstone) comic books 1995-1997

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Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Haunt of Fear (1950-1954 E.C. Comics) #6-10. Featuring - "A Strange Undertaking" (art by Graham Ingels; EC's first unauthorized swipe of a Ray Bradbury story, "The Handler"), "So They Finally Pinned You Down" (art by Wally Wood), "A Grave Gag" (art by Jack Kamen), and "Cheese, That's Horrible" (art by Jack Davis). "Room For One More" (art by Graham Ingels), "The Basket" (art by Jack Davis), "Horror in the School Room" (art by Jack Kamen), and "The Howling Banshee" (art by Johnny Craig). "Hounded To Death" (art by Graham Ingels), "The Very Strange Mummy" (art by George Roussos), "Diminishing Returns" (uncredited art), and "The Irony of Death" (art by Jack Davis). "Warts So Horrible" (art by Graham Ingels), "Forbidden Fruit" (art by Joe Orlando), "The Age-Old Story" (art by Jack Kamen), and "The Gorilla's Paw" (art by Jack Davis). "Grave Business" (art by Graham Ingels), "The Vamp" (art by Johnny Craig and Jack Davis), "My Uncle Ekar" (art by Jack Kamen), and "Bum Steer" (art by Davis). Softcover, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Haunt of Fear (1950-1954 E.C. Comics) #11-15. Cover by Graham Ingels. Stories by Bill Gaines, Johnny Craig and Al Feldstein. Art by Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, George Roussos, Sid Check, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando and Johnny Craig, with colors by Marie Severin. Reprints of the classic EC horror tales that outraged comics nay-sayers of the 1950s and changed both horror and comics history. An exterminator is haunted by all the vermin he's ever killed. A murder victim's tattoo reveals his killers. A murderer ill-advisedly descends into the well where he disposed of his victim's body. And much more stomach-churning horror in the inimitable EC style. Ooze in the Cellar?; The Acid Test!; Extermination; Ear Today… Gone Tomorrow!; Poetic Justice!; On a Dead Mans Chest!; Till Death do we Part!; Whats Cookin?; For the Love of Death!; Fed Up!; Minor Error!; Wolf Bait!; A Little Stranger!; Take Your Pick!; Ship-Shape!; This Little Piggy…; Chatter-Boxed!; All Washed Up!; Marriage Vows!; Death of Some Salesmen! Softcover, 180 pages, Full Color. Cover price $10.95.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Collects Haunt of Fear (1950-1954 E.C. Comics) #16-20. Cover by Graham Ingels. Stories by Ray Bradbury, Bill Gaines, and Al Feldstein. Art by Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, George Evans, Jack Kamen, and Al Feldstein, with colors by Marie Severin. Reprints of the classic EC horror tales that outraged comics nay-sayers of the 1950s and changed both horror and comics history. A man accidentally takes a self-burying coffin on a test ride, based on a Ray Bradbury story. In another Bradbury story, a mysterious time-traveling Ferris wheel becomes the vehicle for both crime and comeuppance. This issue also features the murderous baseball tale "Foul Play," a famous story cited in the anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent, Stephen King's Danse Macabre, and elsewhere. And much more stomach-churning horror in the inimitable EC style. Nobody There!; A Creep in the Deep!; From Hunger!; The Coffin!; Horror We? Hows Bayou?; Gorilla My Dreams!; A Likely Story!; Garden Party!; Hiding Place; Pipe Down; Bedtime Gory!; Pot-Shot!; The Black Ferris!; Sucker Bait!; Lover, Come Hack to Me!; Double-Header!; Foul Play!; Thump Fun!; Terror Train; Bloody Sure; Hyde and Go Shriek. Softcover, 180 pages, Full Color. Cover price $10.50.