Vault of Horror #30

In "Split Personality!", the Vault-Keeper warns of a man who thought he could outwit fate—Ed King, a racketeer who tried to charm his way into the fortune of the Blair sisters, Amy and Susan. When his scheme to play both sisters against each other unravels, the sisters take a very literal approach to justice—splitting him down the middle, so each could keep half of him.

In the chilling pages of *Vault of Horror #30*, the Crypt-Keeper introduces a tale of terror where seven women are found murdered with eerie doughnut-shaped wounds, their blood drained and traces of sea brine on their skin. When crime reporter Danny Hughes scoffs at the police’s bafflement, his own secretary Pat is killed in the same gruesome manner—leaving him to uncover a horrifying truth. As Danny follows a strange figure to an aquarium, he confronts a monstrous, blood-sucking octopus that defies all reason.

In "Practical Choke!", three pre-med students push the bounds of dark humor with a series of unsettling pranks involving real cadaver parts—only to find their joke takes a horrifying turn when the body parts begin to move. As the students scramble to hide their crime, they fail to notice the chilling signs of something far more dangerous than a prank gone wrong. The Vault-Keeper warns: even in the cold light of science, some things should never be played with.

In "Notes to You!" from Vault of Horror #30, four men find themselves targeted by cryptic, deadly letters that unravel their lives—one by one. As Judson Slack, Horton Cox, Averill Minton, and Bert Fields piece together the chilling pattern, they uncover a web of deceit tied to a vanished message and a man who may have known too much. When the final letter vanishes into nothing, the survivors take up their own poison pens—ready to write a reckoning.