Vault of Horror #1

In "Til Death...", a grieving husband’s desperate love is tested when his beloved wife, Donna, dies suddenly. After her burial, his loyal servant, Jebco, unveils a forbidden voodoo ritual to bring her back—only to resurrect her as a decaying zombie. As Steve struggles with horror and sorrow, he finds himself driven to end it all, but Jebco’s final act ensures their twisted reunion: forever entwined in undeath.

In "The Chips Are Down!", three partners—Sigmund, Henning, and Field—find themselves entangled in a sinister government contract to produce 60,000 wooden discs a month, a task made possible only by a new, unsettling saw. As greed takes hold, Henning and Darby conspire to cheat Field out of his share through rigged poker games, driving him to despair and a tragic end. But when Field’s corpse begins to stir beneath the earth, his final act of vengeance unfolds in silence—his grave yielding a rotting hand that follows the two men back to the mill, where their fate is sealed in a gruesome, unrelenting slaughter.

In a forgotten castle with a haunted belfry, a devoted apprentice watches his master ring the royal bell for decades—never once allowed to take the swing himself. When the old bell ringer is finally ordered to ring the bell all day on the Queen’s birthday, the apprentice’s long-held desire turns to violence, and the moment he strikes down his master, he becomes something far worse than a murderer: a man who will never stop ringing.

In "We Ain't Got No Body!", a haunted reunion unfolds when the disembodied spirit of Henry Bodwin confronts his brother Norton, dredging up the past with a chilling reminder of their shared crime: the murder of Henry by train, orchestrated for a double-indemnity payout. Though the brothers celebrated the $40,000 check, the absence of Henry’s limbs never sat right—now, the dead man’s presence is undeniable, and the past refuses to stay buried.

In "Snap Ending!", the crew of Rocketship #269 ventures close to a planet of unimaginable density, drawn by the mystery of its massive satellite moon. As they prepare to land, the silence of space gives way to something far more unsettling—something about the moon's surface doesn’t belong in the known universe.

In "The Parallel!", Calvin becomes obsessed with the idea that a duplicate version of himself is living out the same life in a parallel world—right down to every decision and moment. When he starts to believe he’s reliving his own past, he devises a dangerous plan to cross over and eliminate his double, hoping to seize full control of his fate.

In "Disassembled!", a curious electrical engineer discovers a strange metal object inside a derelict flying saucer and brings it back to his station to uncover its secrets. When the object lets out a scream of pain, he realizes it’s not just a machine—it’s alive. Before he can react, another alien from the saucer arrives, and with cold precision, begins to disassemble him to learn what makes humans tick.