E.C. Classic Reprint #12

In "Kickback!", a young woman grows weary of caring for her wealthy, paralyzed husband after a heart attack leaves him helpless. She devises a plan to fake being trapped in the cellar with canned supplies, hoping to stage his death as an accident—only to find her new lover accidentally locked in the same cellar, with no provisions, and left to suffer the same fate.

In "Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!", a young space explorer and her father land on a strange planet where the flora is anything but harmless—intelligent, predatory plants put on a chilling display of a familiar game, leaving the visitors in a tense, life-or-death situation.

In the tense atmosphere of a military parade honoring wounded Korean War veterans, a blind man is brutally attacked by a mob inflamed by anti-communist fervor—simply for failing to remove his hat during the flag salute. The Patriots! cuts through the chaos with a stark, unflinching look at how fear and patriotism can twist into violence, leaving one man’s dignity and life in the hands of a crowd driven by blind ideology.

In "Halloween!", a new matron at an orphanage uncovers a chilling secret: the orphanage’s manager has been stealing funds meant for the children. When he tries to silence her by threatening to strangle her, the children—silent and watchful—decide to teach him a lesson of their own. With eerie precision, they turn his hollowed-out head into a Jack-o'-lantern, turning his cruelty into a haunting symbol of justice.