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Publisher: EC

Title: Haunt of Fear
Issue: 28
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: November-December 1954
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Al Feldstein

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Haunt of Fear 28
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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:The Haunt of Fear
Pages:1
Pencils:Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inks:Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)


Story Title: In Memoriam - text article
Pages:1
Letters:Typeset
Synopsis:Notice of cancellation of New Trend titles.


Story Title: The Prude - comic story
Features:The Witch's Cauldron!
Pages:7
Pencils:Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inks:Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
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.


Story Title: Numbskull - comic story
Features:The Vault of Horror!
Pages:6
Pencils:Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed); Johnny Craig (Vault Keeper illustration in masthead)
Inks:Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed); Johnny Craig (Vault Keeper illustration in masthead)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
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.


Story Title: A Collector's E.C. Check-List - text article
Pages:1
Letters:Typeset


Story Title: Audition - comic story
Features:Haunt of Fear
Pages:5
Pencils:Jack Kamen
Inks:Jack Kamen
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
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.


Story Title: 500 Teeth - text story
Pages:1
Letters:Typeset


Story Title: A Work of Art! - comic story
Features:The Crypt of Terror
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Davis
Inks:Jack Davis
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
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.


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