Vault of Horror #4

In "Horror House!", a frustrated writer named Henry escapes city life and his meddling friends by buying Millford Manor, a secluded estate rumored to be haunted. When his friends later surprise him with a spooky welcome party, Henry panics and flees—only for them to uncover the real secret behind the manor’s eerie reputation.

In "Terror in the Swamp!", two men push deeper into the Okefenokee, heedless of a warning from an old man who claims the swamp holds a monstrous secret. The old man recounts how a failed experiment unleashed a strange, blob-like creature after a mysterious mixture was dumped into the water—killing a scientist and his daughter. Now, haunted by his lost love and the memory of that night, he pleads with the travelers to turn back, but they press on, unaware of what waits in the dark.

In "Report From The Grave," the Vault-Keeper introduces a chilling ritual gone awry when the town undertaker, Fred Coombes, tasks a new member, Warren Lake, with exhuming a recently buried club member. The young man returns shaken, claiming the coffin held only rags and bones—yet when the entire club returns to the cemetery, they find the corpse inside is decades old. Suspicion falls on Vardy, who once shared a room with the dead man, but his defiant laughter only deepens the mystery. Just as the group prepares to confront him, a sudden explosion rocks the graveyard, and the truth of the burial is revealed in the most unsettling way.

In "Buried Alive!", a carnival sideshow promises a shocking spectacle: Zobo, a man who survives six feet underground for eight hours through shallow breathing. When his girlfriend Rita secretly schemes to bury her new lover Sam instead, the trap begins to close—only for Sam to have a surprise of his own in store. The Vault-Keeper warns of the price of deception, as buried secrets rise to the surface.