Vault of Horror #17

In "Terror on the Moors!", an American tourist named Jim Ryan takes shelter in a remote estate during a fog-laden night, only to find himself entangled in a grim mystery when the reclusive owner, Andrew Clymore, reveals his dying wish to be cremated. As Ryan helps prepare the pyre, the estate’s servant Evers warns him of a terrible secret locked in a barred room—and the monstrous creature that once was Clymore’s child. The Vault-Keeper invites you to step into the chilling heart of the moors, where duty and dread collide.

In the biting cold of a snowbound winter, new superintendent Barton Gordon arrives at a decaying apartment building to take up his post—only to find its landlord, Marcus Kingsley, living in a frigidly air-conditioned apartment that defies the storm outside. When the AC unit fails and a grotesque, flesh-like substance begins seeping from under Kingsley’s door, Gordon must confront the unsettling truth behind the building’s frozen silence.

In "The Beast of the Full Moon!" from Vault of Horror #17 (1951), Tom Kellogg arrives at his brother Andrew's isolated home, uneasy after finding strange footprints and learning of another werewolf killing. Determined to protect himself and his fiancée June, Tom sets a trap with silver bullets, only to be startled when a monstrous hand reaches for him—just as a shot from above ends the threat. Climbing out of the pit, Tom confronts the horrifying truth: Andrew is the beast, and June’s body lies below.

In the shadows of Haiti, George Barker commissions a voodoo bust of himself—only to regret the choice when the statue begins to age while he remains unchanged. As years pass and his life unravels, the bust’s twisted transformation mirrors a growing dread he can’t escape. When a young woman arrives at his door, drawn by a past he’d rather forget, the line between obsession and horror blurs—until the final, chilling twist reveals what the bust has truly become.