- Script
- Otto Binder
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Heh, heh... and heh! (Just to be different.)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Crypt-Keeper (host); Philip (engineer, lives on as a brain only); Jondra (Philip's fiance); Joan; Dr. Andrew Hobart (villain)
- Synopsis
- A mad surgeon cuts out 75% of his married friend's brain so that he can maintain it in a vat and enjoy the mental stimulation of his company while his dumb wife gets the remaining 25% of his brain and his body and never notices the difference.
- Reprints
Writer revision from Al Feldstein to Otto Binder by Craig Delich 2013-4-17, per EC Artists' Library, Volume 4 "'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity" (2013).
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed as Evans)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed as Evans)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Heh, heh! And now that C.K. has chilled your blood...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed prisoner; Dr. Morgan Ullman (villain); Eric Hagen (villain)
- Synopsis
- In order to save money, the management of an insane asylum moves the patients into dungeon cells that the hospital was built on. When an inspection notice from the state board arrives, the doctor panics and orders that all the patients return to their wards. Their scheme is undone when one old crazy man refuses to be bullied into silence, crying out to the inspectors that they've taken his beloved 'Linda' away from him. When they follow his headlong dash downstairs, they find that 'Linda' is a rather large dungeon rat.
- Reprints
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
The visage of the Vault-Keeper on page 1 is a photostat of Johnny Craig's art in "Werewolf Concerto."
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Age had crept up on old Rufus and stiffened his joints...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Crypt-Keeper (host)
- Synopsis
- A circus father attempts to get the knife thrower out of his daughter's life by placing a bar magnet behind the board the knife thrower's wife stands in front of while he does his act, but the daughter convinces the wife to leave him and she takes her place in the act.
- Reprints
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
- Script
- Jack Oleck ?
- Pencils
- Graham Ingels (signed)
- Inks
- Graham Ingels (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hee, hee! Well, don't just stand there with your tongues hanging out!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Old Witch (host); Corporal Hans Gruber (German soldier); unnamed Oberleutnant (cameo); unnamed doctor; Herr Ludmeyer (death); Gustav Shotz (death); Frau Shotz (death); Herr Heinrich (villain, German butcher, death)
- Synopsis
- A German soldier, addled by his experiences in the trenches of WWI, is recruited by a butcher in the following war to dispose of patrons in the cellar so that he has plenty of meat to sell. In the end, Corporal Gruber comes to his senses long enough to settle accounts before he is committed to a sanitarium.
- Reprints
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.