| Issue | #27 |
| Published | September-October 1954 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Albert B. Feldstein |
| 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) #27 (May 1999) |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host) |
| Synopsis | A father thinks he has twins, a beautiful girl and a deformed girl. When he shoots the hateful, vindictive monstrosity to free himself and his beautiful daughter from her presence, he realizes that his wife had given birth to a Siamese infant with two heads joined at the back of the skull and hidden the secret from him. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Graham Ingels |
| Inks | Graham Ingels |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999) |
| Characters | The Vault-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A man in a Puritan colony kills his wife and dumps her body with a weight attached into a pond in order to solicit another man's wife to run away with him. He is caught kissing her and so is sentenced to three dunkings in the pond, where on the third dunk, the dead wife loops the coil of rope over him and pulls him off the chair while he drowns. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | George Evans |
| Inks | George Evans |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999) |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999) |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | Request for fans to write the Senate Subcommitte on Juvenile Delinquency. |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host) |
| Synopsis | In this grim fairy tale a remorseful king demands silence after his boisterous merry-making prevents him from hearing his daughter's shouts for help leading to her death. Eventually his demands on the peasants get so absurd he orders them to stop breathing because of the racket he claims to hear they make. They revolt, and one of them sews a sensitive metronome into the king's body that goes off with the slightest disturbance, and when the still-lying king brushes away an insect, the sound so bothers him he throws himself off a cliff. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kamen |
| Inks | Jack Kamen |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Notes | Script likely by Feldstein. |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | This story is told by a shack in the swamp whose occupant is an idiot cannibal. He disposes of his victims beneath the rotting supports of the shack and eventually it collapses bringing him down into the bog to join his victims. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Jack Oleck ? |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall |
| Inks | Reed Crandall |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #27 (May 1999) |