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Issue: Haunt of Fear #25
Publication Date: May 1954
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Issues: #25 of 28 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1992 published January 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #25 published November 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The New Arrival

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); an old mansion (story relator); Edgar Lockwood (traveler); Mr. Ackroyd (image only); "Dumpling" (Ackroyd baby, death); Cynthia Ackroyd (villain, aged woman)
First Line: Hee, hee! Fond felicitations, freaks!
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.'
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1989 published January 1989
as Den nye [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #25 published November 1998
as The New Arrival [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Indisposed!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Henry's card playing friends [George; Bill; other two unnamed]; Rita (Henry's wife, death, in flashback); Henry (villain)
First Line: Heh, heh! Well, this is the second of that terrible trio of loathable laments...
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Indisposed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1 [1988] published February 1988
as Førstemann til kverna [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #25 published November 1998
as Indisposed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

The visage of the Vault-Keeper on page 1 is a photostat of Johnny Craig's art in "Werewolf Concerto".
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Way to Die!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Pages: 1
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Out Cold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: This is what might have been if Ralph hadn't gone...
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1989 published January 1989
as Pladask [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #25 published November 1998
as Out Cold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Light In His Life!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Heh, heh! And now it's wind-up time in C.W.'s morbid mag.
Synopsis: A man snowbound in an Alaskan cabin makes his obese wife into candles and oil for him to read by.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1989 published January 1989
as Fett nok! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #25 published November 1998
as The Light in His Life! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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