The Haunt of Fear #1

In "Horror We? How's Bayou?", the Old Witch introduces a chilling tale of two brothers, Sidney and Everett, whose twisted game of luring travelers into the swamp takes a horrifying turn when the victims—disembodied and reassembled from the mire—finally rise to reclaim their due. As Everett struggles to understand why his brother’s limbs now sprout from his own body, the swamp’s dark secrets begin to unravel in ways neither man could have foreseen.

In "Gorilla My Dreams!", a man’s worst nightmare becomes reality when he’s abducted by a mad scientist and forced into the body of a gorilla. Trapped in a form he can’t escape, Philip must face the cruel irony of being celebrated as a monster while his own family sees him only as a murderer. The Vault-Keeper invites you to ponder what it means to be human when the mind is lost in a beast’s skin.

In "A Likely Story!" from The Haunt of Fear #1 (1991), the Old Witch presides over a household of terrified servants, each one simmering with quiet rage. As the seamstress, decorator, and painter each imagine their own twisted ways to end the Queen’s tyranny, their fantasies finally collide in a chilling act of collective revenge—crafted with needle, paint, and a frame too perfect to be real.

In "Garden Party!", The Crypt-Keeper welcomes you to a twisted tale of horticultural obsession and quiet revenge. When Louella’s devotion to her perfect garden clashes with her husband Godefrey’s secret plans for a backyard barbecue, what begins as a polite dinner party spirals into something far more unsettling—especially when the flowers aren’t the only things getting uprooted.

In "The Inferiors," a scientific expedition stumbles upon a grim pattern across dead worlds—once-thriving civilizations now silent, their people gone. What they uncover in an ancient recording is a chilling revelation: the race that once ruled the stars chose extinction to avoid descending into violence, leaving only a few behind on a distant planet—Earth—where their descendants now live as the very beasts they once feared.

In "Lost In Space," Myra, haunted by memories of her lost love Jim, flees her father’s control by stealing a spaceship in a desperate bid to reach Earth. Trapped in the vast emptiness of space, she’s soon found—her father, calm and knowing, reminds her she’s done this before. But the truth beneath her longing is one she can’t face: Earth is gone, and Jim died with it. Still, she clings to the hope of reunion, begging to be set free, even as the stars stretch on endlessly around her.

In "Round Trip," a retired dreamer named Henry finds himself unexpectedly stranded on Mars—though he never left Earth. Once a boy with stars in his eyes, he now faces the quiet weight of unfulfilled ambition, trapped in a reality that feels like a lifetime away from the future he imagined.

In "The Trial of Adam Link," a young man inherits his uncle’s estate—and the sentient robot Adam Link, a being of quiet dignity who’s repeatedly dismissed and feared despite his kindness. When Adam is put on trial for his very existence, the proceedings are a mockery, but a moment of unexpected heroism during the verdict’s wait begins to stir doubt in the crowd. The story unfolds with quiet tension, asking what it truly means to be human when justice is so easily perverted.