Haunt of Fear #25

(May-June 1954)

The New Arrival (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Graham Ingels

Inks:

Graham Ingels

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

This story is told by a mansion. The occupant is a lunatic old woman who lost her mind when her husband was killed in WWI and kept her new born infant uneducated and in shackles for 40 years. But this night, her 'baby' is dying, and a luckless traveler is clubbed into unconscious and when he awakens, finds that he has become the new 'baby.'

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (November 1998)

Indisposed! (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein ?

Pencils:

George Evans

Inks:

George Evans

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A man uses his new garbage disposal to eliminate the remains of his wife's body, but his plumber friend who installed it doesn't have experience and connects it to the water intake, so when one of the man's friends tries to get a glass of water his wife's gory remains come oozing out.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in EC Horror Library of the 1950's (Nostalgia Press, 1970 series) #[nn] (1970)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (November 1998)

Indexer Notes

Script likely by Feldstein.

Way To Die! (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils:

Marie Severin

Inks:

Marie Severin

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

Out Cold (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Jack Kamen

Inks:

Jack Kamen

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

The old witch tells us a story with two endings. The first ending relates what would have happened to the protagonist if he had pursued a relationship with a new office girl who turns out to be a ghoul using human meat to feed her mother's cats, but the old witch tells us that's not what actually happened. What actually happened was he was so taken with her beauty he mistakenly tumbled out of an open window 20 stories to a very easy death while being cursed for his stupidity by the girl.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (November 1998)

The Light In His Life! (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A man snowbound in an Alaskan cabin makes his obese wife into candles and oil for him to read by.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (November 1998)