Haunt of Fear #28

(November-December 1954)

In Memoriam (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You may never read this magazine.

Synopsis

Notice of cancellation of New Trend titles.

Reprints

• in Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #5 (1985)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Prude (Table of Contents: 2)

The Witch's Cauldron! / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Graham Ingels (signed as Ghastly)

Inks

Graham Ingels (signed as Ghastly)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hee, hee! So, why am I cackling?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Old Witch (host); Warren Forbisher (Northton citizen, self-appointed guardian of public morals, death); George Kraus (member of the City Council); Mr. Gould (publisher of the Northton Times); Mr. Wallman (President of the Wallman Bank); Mr. Brock (of the Brockman Shipping Company); Seth Hoskins (gravedigger); Laura Adams (Warren's lover, death); Henrietta Forbisher (Warren's wife)

Synopsis

A man in an adulterous relationship deals with the guilt of his mistresses' suicide by campaigning against all forms of public affection until he finally has a law passed requiring separate cemeteries for men and women. The good women will not stand for this however, and they unbury themselves during the night to rebury themselves next to their mates. At first he doesn't believe the gravedigger when he relates what is happening so he stays in the cemetery at night and observes them rise. His former mistress drags him back into her grave.

Reprints

• in Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #5 (1985)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #4 [1988] (uke 23 1988)
which is reprinted
• in Iskalde Grøss - Klassikerserien (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2006 series) #[nn] ([mai] 2006)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #29 - Accidents and Old Lace and Other Stories (January 2021) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Keywords

Northton (city)

Indexer Notes

Ingels put "farewell" next to his signature on the splash panel.

Numbskull (Table of Contents: 3)

The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein); Johnny Craig (Vault Keeper illustration in masthead)

Inks

Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein); Johnny Craig (Vault Keeper illustration in masthead)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Heh, heh! Hi, hidiots!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host); vindictive hunter (villain, death)

Synopsis

This story is told by the skull of a sadistic animal trapper in Africa who traps animals only in order to inflict pain on them before he kills them, all to seek revenge for a cheating business partner, cheating wife, his brother and his father. One day he falls victim to one of his own pit traps and as various sorts of animals gather round, the ants strip his flesh clean.

Reprints

• in Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #5 (1985)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #1/1992 (uke 3 1992)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #21 - Master Race and Other Stories (March 2018) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Vault Keeper art credit by Craig Delich.

A Collector's E.C. Check-List (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Due to frequent requests from avid collectors of E.C. type literature...

Reprints

• in Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #5 (1985)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

Indexer Notes

List of Titles, issues numbers and dates of New Trend crime and horror titles.

Audition (Table of Contents: 5)

Haunt of Fear / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed as J. Kamen)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed as J. Kamen)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here's an offbeat opus sure to drive you notes!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis

One girl so desperately wants to be in Phil Vitale's all-girl orchestra that she is willing to kill herself so he gives her a lethal injection that makes her into a zombie. She assumes that they are all zombies and she doesn't care because she still wants to be in the band, and in a way, she gets her wish as they turn out to be Phil Vitale's all-ghoul orchestra.

Reprints

• in Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #5 (1985)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #36 - Kamen's Kalamity and Other Stories (2024) [Reprinted in black and white.]

500 Teeth (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein ?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The window slid open easily...

Reprints

• in Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #5 (1985)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)

A Work of Art! (Table of Contents: 7)

The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Jack Davis

Inks

Jack Davis

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Heh, heh! And now it's time for your Crypt-Keeper...

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A man is so unsatisfied with the commercial attitudes of his fellow morticians, including that of the son-in-law he fruitlessly tried to impart a sense of art, that he builds his own robot mortician to euthanize him and do a job he himself would be proud of.

Reprints

• in Haunt of Fear (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #5 (1985)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #2/1991 (uke 9 1991)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (August 1999)
• in Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) (January 2023)