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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published May-June 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Albert B. Feldstein

Cover Details

Characters The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Genre Horror
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (May 1997)

8 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "Sucker Bait!"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis After his father is killed by a vampire, a chemist comes up with a plan to sacrifice himself so that others may live. He drinks a radioactive substance that may be traced by a Geiger counter and leaves a note for his brother detailing the plan to use the instrument to track down the vampire after he has drained the isotope blood. Unfortunately for his plan, the chemist's brother turns out to be the vampire.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (May 1997)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "Lover, Come Hack to Me!"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis Every generation, a madwoman is conceived on the night of her parent's wedding who follows the tradition of murdering her newly-wed husband with an ax in the same house.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (May 1997)

1 page text story "Incendiary!"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin
Letters Typeset

1 page The Old Witch's Niche letters page "Letters page"

Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset

6 page The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale! story "Double-Header!"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis In this grim fairy tale an old king finds a young girl to marry and is deeply in love with her but cannot offer her the physical relationship she needs, so she takes a lover. Three court ladies who are very jealous of her find out and inform the king. The king's honor has been insulted, and so his queen and her lover must pay with their lives, but the king truly loved her deeply and is heartbroken. He makes the three women who ruined his happiness pay by blinding one, deafening the other, and cutting the tongue out of the third.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (May 1997)

7 page The Crypt of Terror story "Foul Play!"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis Psychotic baseball players dismember a player from an opposing baseball team in revenge for his using poisoned cleats in a game and then use his body parts to play ball.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (May 1997)