Haunt of Fear #27

(September-October 1954)

About Face (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Graham Ingels

Inks:

Graham Ingels

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

A father thinks he has twins, a beautiful girl and a deformed girl. When he shoots the hateful, vindictive monstrosity to free himself and his beautiful daughter from her presence, he realizes that his wife had given birth to a Siamese infant with two heads joined at the back of the skull and hidden the secret from him.

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• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999)

Game Washed Out! (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

George Evans

Inks:

George Evans

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A man in a Puritan colony kills his wife and dumps her body with a weight attached into a pond in order to solicit another man's wife to run away with him. He is caught kissing her and so is sentenced to three dunkings in the pond, where on the third dunk, the dead wife loops the coil of rope over him and pulls him off the chair while he drowns.

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• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999)

Easy Dough (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

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• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999)

A Special Editorial (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Letters:

Typeset

Indexer Notes

Request for fans to write the Senate Subcommitte on Juvenile Delinquency.

Silent Treatment (Table of Contents)

The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale! / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein ?

Pencils:

Jack Kamen

Inks:

Jack Kamen

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

In this grim fairy tale a remorseful king demands silence after his boisterous merry-making prevents him from hearing his daughter's shouts for help leading to her death. Eventually his demands on the peasants get so absurd he orders them to stop breathing because of the racket he claims to hear they make. They revolt, and one of them sews a sensitive metronome into the king's body that goes off with the slightest disturbance, and when the still-lying king brushes away an insect, the sound so bothers him he throws himself off a cliff.

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• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999)

Indexer Notes

Script likely by Feldstein.

Swamped (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jack Oleck ?

Pencils:

Reed Crandall

Inks:

Reed Crandall

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

This story is told by a shack in the swamp whose occupant is an idiot cannibal. He disposes of his victims beneath the rotting supports of the shack and eventually it collapses bringing him down into the bog to join his victims.

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• in EC Horror Library of the 1950's (Nostalgia Press, 1970 series) #[nn] (1970)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999)