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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: Tales from the Crypt
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: January 1951
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Country: United States
Carl and Al are driving down a dark, lonely road when suddenly headlights appear in front of them, and there is a crash. Al awakens with torn clothes and a smell, asking a driver on the road for a lift to town, but the man screams and drives off. A similar reaction comes from a hobo and a woman, whose car he takes to his home, which has been foreclosed upon. Then he walks to his friend's house, but sees Carl without eyes and blind. Al walks to a mirror and sees his rotten and decomposed face, then is awakened...it has been a dream. Then car lights appear and there is a crash....for real!; Tony loves and secretly marries Anna, a wealthy, but underage girl. When her Uncle discovers this, he threatens to annul the marriage, which drives Anna to her sickbed. When she passes, Anthony murders her Uncle, then brings a carnival prize to her mausoleum. He accidently gets locked in and survives nearly a month by catching leaking rain water and devouring the corpse, eventually succumbing to formaldehyde poisoning.; Jay and Bill witness a forbidden voodoo ceremony. Jay is captured and later meets up with Bill and they leave Haiti. Bill finds a package at home and is startled to see it contains a voodoo doll with a large pin, which comes to life and attacks Bill. Throwing it into the fire, he rushes into the hall, gets Jay, and returns to see the doll is nowhere in sight. Jay reveals that he is a zombie sent with the doll to kill Bill. Enraged, Bill rips apart the doll and notes it has a human heart: Jay's! And both Jay and Bill fall dead.; Alan Bitsby sets out to prove that a medium is faking by asking him to raise the spirit of his 'departed' wife. Unbeknownst to the medium at the time the seance begins, Bitsby's wife is very much alive. The medium goes into a trance, and, with a great deal of effort, does succeed in summoning up the spirit of Bitsby's wife, at which point Bitsby triumphantly accuses the bewildered medium of being a fake and leaves. Upon returning home, however, Mrs. Bitsby is found dead as a doornail.