The Vault of Horror #4

In "A Stitch in Time!", a tyrannical sweatshop owner pushes his seamstresses to the breaking point with brutal working conditions and cruel punishments. When one elderly worker is forced to sort needles and thread after her machine shatters her hand, the workers’ simmering rage finally finds a way to strike back. As a fire engulfs the shop, Mr. Lasch is trapped—his lips sewn shut, his hands bound, his feet hobbled—paying the ultimate price for his cruelty.

Ernie’s long-simmering resentment toward his boss, Mr. Anderson, finally boils over in a desperate act of vengeance. Years later, now a successful man with a new life, he’s forced to confront the dark irony of his past when he retrieves a single bar of soap he kept—just in case—only to find it’s not as harmless as it seems.

In the sweltering heat of the Banggai Islands, Red Buckley thought he’d outsmarted everyone—murdering his employer, Mr. Duval, and stealing the legendary black pearl with the help of the native Kulu. But as their escape begins, Red realizes too late that Kulu’s long-awaited vengeance has nothing to do with jewels and everything to do with a very specific head—his own. With a machete in hand and a past buried in blood, Kulu’s patience has finally paid off.

In "Staired... in Horror!", Robert’s quiet visit to his late wife Ethel’s grave takes a sinister turn when he crosses paths with Irma, a woman whose own husband she claims to have killed. Drawn into a marriage marked by psychological torment and forbidden visits to the past, Robert’s health crumbles under Irma’s relentless control—until he makes one final, desperate pilgrimage to Ethel’s grave. There, his life ends, but his death only triggers a chilling reckoning: as Irma celebrates her supposed windfall, the ghosts of her and Robert’s murdered spouses rise from the earth, closing in on her with cold, unrelenting purpose.

In "For the Love of Death!", Morton’s morbid fascination with funeral rituals reaches a chilling peak when he takes matters into his own hands—literally. After murdering a local man, he climbs into the coffin, eager to experience his own final rites from the inside, only to face a horrifying twist: the man he killed had requested cremation.

In "Fed Up!", a struggling couple’s fragile bond cracks under the weight of greed and excess. When Sandra’s sword-swallowing act starts earning money, her partner Alec’s appetite spirals out of control—devouring everything in sight and draining their savings. Desperate to save their future, Sandra decides to teach Alec her act, but the moment he swallows a sword, she vanishes, leaving him trapped and terrified, with only a warning: don’t move, don’t belch, or things could get messy.

In "Minor Error!", three boys trying to fit in with a new kid in the neighborhood stumble upon a chilling mystery when they catch the boy’s uncle carrying a bottle of blood. Convinced the uncle is a vampire, they take matters into their own hands—only to uncover a far stranger truth when they open a coffin in his home. The story’s eerie twist turns their heroic act into something far more unsettling.

In "Wolf Bait!", a desperate group of villagers flees through a blinding snowstorm, pursued by a relentless pack of wolves. As the storm and fear close in, they’re forced to make an unthinkable choice: sacrifice one of their own to save the rest. With tension mounting and the wagon groaning under the strain, one figure is thrown into the storm—though the story keeps the identity of the one left behind a chilling mystery.