- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein (signed as )
- Inks
- Al Feldstein (signed as )
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So... we meet again, dear reader!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Vault Keeper [cameos]
- Synopsis
- Florence and Bert had just finshed dumping her husband's body in the ocean and made their way back to the lighthouse on the beach. She knew that her husband had a large sum of money somewhere around the house or on the property, and while she was searching outside for it, Bert heard a scream. Rushing to the beach, he saw that the body of Flo's husband has just washed ashore, so he took it and dumped it off the highest cliff in the area.....only to wash ashore again a few days later. Bert decided to take the body this time far up the coast, dump it and return. But Flo was worried and asked him to go back up the coast to make sure the body didn't wash ashore there. While he was gone, Flo remained in the lighthouse....then she saw water seeping under the door, figured it was her dead husband and began climbing the stairs to the top to get away from him. Just as Bert drove up, he heard a horrific scream from the top and the light go out on the lighthouse. He entered the structure, and saw a trail of water leading up the stairs, followed it, and then we hear a scream again. The next day, as government inspectors came to the lighthouse to investigate why the light was out, they found both bodies, covered in seaweed...then they notice a rotted corpse lying on the beach!
- Reprints
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Harry Harrison
- Inks
- Wally Wood
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What is the terror surrounding this once splendid home?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Sybil Harkley (death); Hagers (Clayton Harkley's lawyer); Charles Harkley (villain, death); Edgar Harkley (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- Clayton Harkley had died from a mortal wound inflicted by his brother and left a dying man's curse upon the money he will inherit. The last members of the Harkley clan gather in the house to celebrate their newfound wealth, until their late uncle's lawyer informs the three that his money goes to Miss Sybil, a cousin....not to the brother! The two males decide to kill Miss Sybil with the same morphine that Uncle Harkley had once used, and succeed in a roundabout way. But she returns from the dead to seek revenge.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Harkley Heath; Harkley Heath (a mansion)
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Harry Harrison.
Cover story.
- Script
- Robert Louis Stevenson (original story); ? (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Graham Ingels
- Inks
- Graham Ingels
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the seventeenth century, when Alfred Lemonet was anatomy instructor...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Finch (retiring school Dean, new school Governor); Dr. Cranshaw (death); Professor (later Dean) Alfred LeMonet (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- At the Hampshire Surgeon School, Professor LeMonet is told that attendance in his classes must increase if he is to remain as a teacher there, so he digs up cadavers for use in his anatomy classes, and enrollment suddenly blossoms, to the Dean's delight. LeMonet decides to kill his competition to get the Dean's job, then sees an opportunity to become Governor as well. LeMonet hires men to go out and kill people along the waterfront area, and bring their cadavers to the school to impress the royal surgeon, but the men make a grievous error, for LeMonet's body is among the other corpses!
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Hampshire Surgeon School
Ingels's first horror story.
Story was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher," which was itself inspired by the real-life Burke and Hare case of 1828.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman (adaptation); Richard Connell
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- High in the empty sky...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Stephen Crane; Alec; Count Alvar Cabeza (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- Steve Crane, along with his partner Alec, are flying over a small island, when the plane develops engine trouble and crash-lands. Crane drags himself out of the water, spots a huge castle atop a mountain and manages to crawl up and knock on the door before he passes out. When he awakens several days later, he meets his benefactor, Count Cabeza, who provides a delicious meal before taking him into his trophy room. The Count shows him his animal trophy heads, but notes that he has yet to match wits with another type of animal: man! And Steve Crane is to be that man.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- terror
This story by Kurtzman is inspired by Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game."
Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.
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References:
Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.