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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; Al Feldstein (logo design)

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Notes: Logo design credit from Todd Klein.

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Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; Al Feldstein (logo design)

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Notes: Logo design credit from Todd Klein.

Death Must Come

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein

Inker(s): Al Feldstein

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A transferred gland preserves youth.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

The Man Who Was Death

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Gardner Fox

Penciller(s): Bill Fraccio

Inker(s): Bill Fraccio

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A state executioner takes the law into his own hands.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Alibi On Ice

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 0.67

The Corpse Nobody Knew

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): George Roussos

Inker(s): George Roussos

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A couple find a body in their hotel room and play detective.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Tell-Tale Marks

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Curse of the Full Moon!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Johnny Craig

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig

Inker(s): Johnny Craig

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Ralph; George

Synopsis: Ralf thinks he's become a werewolf after being scratched by a Wolfsbane plant.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

The Crypt of Terror

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Russ Cochran

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 4

Living Corpse

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

The Maestro's Hand

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein

Inker(s): Al Feldstein

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (host)

Synopsis: Dr. Hellman arrives at a cabin in the woods to forget the suicide of his ex-fiancee after he unnecessarily removed the injured piano hand of her lover and he killed himself. When he opens the package he finds upon his doorstep, the detached hand lunges for his throat. When police arrive later, they find the doctor dead from self-strangulation.

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Pages: 8

The Living Corpse

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Wally Wood

Inker(s): Wally Wood

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): Jed Bryant (morgue attendant, death); Tim (morgue worker); Desiree (Satanus' assistant, death); Satanus (villain, magician, death)

Synopsis: A magician strikes his assistant while wearing a snake ring and then attempts to locate where her body was taken by playing dead himself as to remove the snake imprint evidence. He assaults the morgue attendant but is locked into the freezer while the attendant suffers a heart attack and is thus doomed to freeze to death.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Portrait of Life...and Death

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Madness At Manderville

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Ivan Klapper ?

Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman

Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: When Tom Mander and his wife lose their son Billy, Tom worries the strain may be driving her insane when she tells him that she sees and hears things he cannot. When they find a butcher knife soaked with blood in the kitchen and the dog in the cellar with its throat slashed Tom takes his wife in to see a doctor who has Tom committed to an insane asylum when his discussion reveals to the doctor that Tom cannot perceive sights and sounds that actually do occur.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Script credit based on interview with William Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman in Squa Tront #9, 1983.

Mute Witness To Murder!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Johnny Craig

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig

Inker(s): Johnny Craig

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A woman sees her neighbor doctor murder his wife and is struck dumb from the shock. Her husband summons the very same doctor and he realizes what she must have witnessed and has her committed to an asylum. He realizes that her voice may return at any time so he schedules her for a brain operation in which he plans to 'accidentally' kill her. Her voice does return and when his heart gives out without his medicine during their struggle, she chooses to let him die rather than summon aid in time.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein.

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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig

Inker(s): Johnny Craig

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Ghost Ship

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein

Inker(s): Al Feldstein

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A man and his wife are flying in a small plane when a thick fog arises and they are forced to put down at sea. Using a lifeboat for a couple of days they come across a rotted ship. Reading the ship's log they learn the mutinous crew died one by one after being cursed by the captain they forced to walk the plank. The man sees a ship heading towards them and are afraid they are going to be rammed, but the ship passes right through where they are standing! They get in their lifeboat and are rescued but the captain does not believe their strange tale of the ghost ship.

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Pages: 8

The Hungry Grave

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Gardner Fox

Penciller(s): Graham Ingels

Inker(s): Graham Ingels

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A woman hates her husband so she gives him small doses of arsenic trying to work up her nerve to finish him off, but all she succeeds in doing is allowing him to develop a tolerance to the stuff. When he overhears her plot to leave him in a sack for her lover to bury in a dug-up grave, he poisons her instead and puts her in the sack so that the lover buries her not quite dead. Then, he kills the lover with an ax.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein.

Cave Man

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Johnny Craig

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig

Inker(s): Johnny Craig

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A man thaws out after 200,000 years in ice and attacks his exhibitors.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein.

Incident On the Cliff

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Zombie!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Johnny Craig

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig

Inker(s): Johnny Craig

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A plantation owner with a young wife hates the kindness she shows to the natives. He bursts into one of their voodoo dance rituals and shoots her dead for partaking. The natives turn her into a zombie and send her after him for revenge. Firing useless bullets, he flees into the jungle where he falls into a bog of quicksand and she joins him in eternity.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein.

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Crypt-Keeper (inset)

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Pages: 1

The Thing From the Sea

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein

Inker(s): Al Feldstein

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: During a sea voyage a passenger discovers that stateroom 13 has the reputation of being haunted. He discovers that it is indeed haunted by the corpse of someone the captain murdered and it drops into sea after taking revenge upon the captain.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

End of the Search

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

A Fatal Caper

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Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen

Inker(s): Jack Kamen

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: Teenagers remove a body from a casket in order to dress as a mystically-summoned monster and place one of their own inside as a prank, however, the undertaker is unaware of this and buries the body. When they tell him that he must dig it back up, he refuses because the corpse inside died of leprosy. They all look down in horror at their hands and realize they must have contracted it.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Backfire

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Rx...Death

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Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Graham Ingels

Inker(s): Graham Ingels

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A sister worries that her brother is under too much stress and so asks a doctor to write a prescription for some medicine. The doctor does so, but the old-fashioned druggist has only a bottle with the correct label, but after the doctor examines it, he realizes it is not the correct substance. After the contents have been analyzed, the results indicate that for the past several weeks, her brother has been slowly digested alive.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Impending Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig

Inker(s): Johnny Craig

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: An artist draws a frightened face with a circle around it. Thinking it odd, he goes for a walk encountering a grave-stone cutter who looks like the picture he drew carving a tombstone with his name on it. The stone-cutter laughs it off, but wants to show his wife the picture. It turns out the artist and the stone-cutter's wife were once romantically involved and she wants to be so again. The stone-cutter catches them together and kills the artist.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

E.C. Fans!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Russ Cochran

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein

Inker(s): Al Feldstein

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement for the complete Weird Science.

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Penciller(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inker(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Genres: horror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (inset)

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Pages: 1

A Shocking Way To Die

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein

Inker(s): Al Feldstein

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A scientist revives a man sent to the electric chair who then pursues revenge against the jury and judge that convicted him.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Terror Ride!

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Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Woody] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Woody] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): George; Ruth; amusement park owner (villain, death)

Synopsis: A lunatic owner of a 'tunnel of love' ride replaces the wax figures in his lurid displays of violence with the more realistic-looking bodies of his victims so his customers will no longer laugh at the exhibits of his genius.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letter credit revised from ? Roberts to Wroten by Craig Delich.

Burial

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

House of Horror

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Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman

Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: Three college freshmen disappear one night as part of a frat hazing at a local haunted house.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Death Suited Him

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Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Graham Ingels

Inker(s): Graham Ingels

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: The rivalry between two college boys for the love a woman ends when the poorer of the two murders the other, making it look like an accident, to gain his wife and money. To top off his victory he decides to steal the tuxedo for the wedding the victim was wearing when buried, because he is convinced if he were not too poor to afford a tuxedo in college, he could have been her first choice in marriage. She agrees to the wedding, but on the blessed day, he dies from embalming fluid poisoning contracted from the suit.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

E.C. Fans!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Russ Cochran

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein

Inker(s): Al Feldstein

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement for the complete Weird Fantasy.

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Penciller(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inker(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): Tales From the Crypt

Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (inset); The Vault Keeper (inset); the Old Witch (inset); William Ferth

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Pages: 1

The Thing From the Grave!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inker(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); James Barry (death); Laura Mason (Jame's wife); William (Bill) Ferth (villain, death)

Synopsis: Bill and Jim are rivals for Laura's affection. After Jim proposes and Laura accepts, she worries about Bill's temper. Bill kills Jim and buries his body in the forest and disposes of his car in a sinkhole, then tries to convince Laura that Jim has deserted her, but she refuses to believe it. Bill gets frustrated, admits to murdering Jim and tells Laura that he'll have to kill her too, taking her to a cabin and setting it afire. She screams, awakens Bill's corpse, who then rises from his grave, saves Laura, and takes care of Bill.....once and for all!

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Pages: 8

Notes: Adapted from text story in The Haunt Of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #15 (May/June 1950).

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

Blood Type 'V'!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as G. I.] (signed)

Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as G. I.] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Freddie Duncan (reporter for the Evening Sun, death); Jean Duncan (Freddie's co-worker, death); Doctor Bensen (death); un-named hobo tramp (death); un-named blood donor (villain, a vampire)

Synopsis: An auto accident forces a man to seek help for his wife who has been knocked unconscious. When he returns with a doctor, the doctor is surprised to see she has suffered few cuts but nonetheless is nearly dead from massive blood loss. Neither man is the correct blood type to give a transfusion, but a passing stranger with the correct type offers to do so. The woman recovers and disappears after which a spate of vampire attacks occur. Freddie suspects the "donor" to be a vampire and confronts and kills a vampire that turns out to be Jean, then is killed by the true vampire.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

The Way Out

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Marie Severin ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): Marie Severin ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Death's Turn!

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Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen

Inker(s): Jack Kamen

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Robert Bixby (construction engineer, new amusement park owner, death); Kane (villain, amusement park owner, death); Crossen (villain, amusement park owner, death)

Synopsis: Two unscrupulous amusement park owners offer a third partnership to a man who claims he has plans for the world's fastest roller coaster. After it's built, they grouse about having to cut him in on the profits, so they shove him in front of the car during a final test and hush the whole thing up as an "unfortunate accident". On opening day, before packed crowds, they get into the car for the first ride, only to be found dead as the car comes to a stop, their necks broken.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

The Curse of the Arnold Clan!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Robert Arnold; Bess Arnold (Robert's wife); Jeremiah Arnold (George and Jason's father, flashback, death); George Arnold (Robert's brother, flashback, death); Jason Arnold (Robert's brother, flashback, death); William Arnold (Robert's brother, flashback, death); un-named cemetery caretaker

Synopsis: A man finds a an old book in the attic which details a curse that stipulates every 50 years the eldest Arnold will be buried alive. He doesn't believe it, but when he attends a costume ball that entails a scavenger hunt, he is tasked with retrieving a musket. He then realizes that one is interred within a coffin in the family crypt, so he attempts to sneak in to avoid the caretaker, but then sees him coming and hides in the casket. The lid locks tight and the curse of the Arnold Clan is fulfilled once again.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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Writer(s): Russ Cochran

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Illustration on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inker(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): Tales From the Crypt

Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (inset); The Vault Keeper (inset); the Old Witch (inset); William Ferth

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Pages: 1

Notes: On back cover.