| Issue | #40 |
| Published | February-March 1954 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | William M. Gaines |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset) |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (June 1998) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A woman plots to run away with the circus animal trainer because her husband, even though he can project his thoughts to her which they use as their act, does not love her. The husband tumbles to the plot and forces the animal trainer at gunpoint into the lion's cage where he is torn apart. The wife suspects him but has no proof and so when the husband is accidentally paralyzed when a beam lands upon him while the circus packs up, she ignores his thoughts for help and coldly advises them not to embalm him so that he is buried alive. He begs her to come back and help him, and he hears digging at the coffin lid, but his luck continues to be very poor as it turns out to be a ghoul who proceeds to devour him alive. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (June 1998) |
| Characters | The Vault-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | Two navy divers discover a pearl bed while placing demo charges and make plans to go back for them after the war ends. One gets greedy and murders the other one whose corpse then surprises him while he is attempting to acquire the pearls. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | George Evans |
| Inks | George Evans |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (June 1998) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A story about a madman who converts a house into a ship in the middle of a prairie. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Bernie Krigstein |
| Inks | Bernie Krigstein |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (June 1998) |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host) |
| Synopsis | A man who enjoys tormenting lobster ends up in a car crash where the steering column disembowels him and the flames that erupt broil him alive. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Al Feldstein |
| Pencils | Graham Ingels |
| Inks | Graham Ingels |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #24 (June 1998) |