Haunt of Fear #21

(September-October 1953)

An Off-Color Heir (Table of Contents)

The Witch's Cauldron! / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils:

Graham Ingels

Inks:

Graham Ingels

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

A modern telling of Bluebeard.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (November 1997)

Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone! (Table of Contents)

The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A doctor transplants a cat's nine lives gland into a derelict in order to make money in death-defying stunts. The derelict betrays the doctor in order to keep more of the money, but the doctor has the last laugh by realizing the derelict is miscounting the lives he has left to lose since the dead cat had already used one making eight, not nine left.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (November 1997)

Out of Sight! (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Letters:

Typeset

[Letters page] (Table of Contents)

The Old Witch's Niche / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Letters:

Typeset

Corker! (Table of Contents)

Haunt of Fear / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils:

Jack Kamen

Inks:

Bill Elder

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

A woman with suicidal tendencies and the skeptical psychologist who loves her visit a swami who diagnoses her problem as stemming from her having witnessed the hanging of an obese man whose head popped right off the body releasing a 'decapitation Lamia' that has possessed her and, sadly, can only be removed by decapitation. She flees from the swami in terror, rushing down into the subway, where she finds herself thrown under the train wheels and the pursuing psychologist bursts into maniacal laughter as the Lamia possesses him.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (November 1997)

The High Cost of Dying! (Table of Contents)

The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils:

Reed Crandall

Inks:

Reed Crandall

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A man in nineteenth century Paris is faced with the choice of paying a licensed undertaker money he does not have to bury his wife or turning her corpse over to medical students for dissection practice because of a new ordinance passed by the commissioner of health. He drops a body off in the evening at the medical college, and the following day uses the money he's received to buy food and clothes for his starving children and to bury his wife. The medical students realize that the body they've received is that of the commissioner of health.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Tales from the Crypt (Ballantine Books, 1964 series) #U2106 (December 1964)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (November 1997)