EC Classics #9

In "A Little Stranger!", a female vampire and a male werewolf, bound by love and moonlit rites, hunt the hill country together, their bond tested by the cycle of his transformation. When the villagers strike, driving silver into his heart and a stake through her, they rise again from the devil’s graveyard—married, reborn, and sealed in a mausoleum as their new home. Almost a year later, their strange legacy begins with the birth of Elicia’s child, the Old Witch.

In "Ship-Shape!", four survivors of a plane crash cling to a life raft only to drift toward a forgotten ship adrift in the open sea. Covered in a strange, pulsing fungus, the vessel seems abandoned—until one of them reaches out with a pocket knife, tearing into the strange growth and unleashing a horrifying, flesh-eating fluid. Now, with rescue in sight, the two who escaped the ship’s grasp face a new terror: the life raft itself may be infected, and the sea around them is no longer just a refuge, but a silent, spreading threat.

In "This Little Piggy...", a British officer in colonial India ignores his uncle’s warning and hunts a sacred wild boar, then prepares and serves it with chilling ritual. The act horrifies a native servant present, and though the uncle tries to make amends, word spreads through the village. As the officer prepares to leave, the villagers take matters into their own hands—repeating the same gruesome feast upon him.

In "All Washed Up!", a desperate man takes a terrible gamble to win the woman he loves, only to find himself trapped in a nightmare he never saw coming. After murdering his rival and hiding the body in an old well, he returns for a stolen ring—only to be pulled down by a corpse that refuses to let go.

In "Death of Some Salesmen!", a stranded salesman finds himself trapped in the eerie home of an old couple whose appliances seem far too well-maintained—and far too familiar. As they methodically display their working household devices, each one a grim testament to a past salesman’s fate, the man realizes too late that his own fate may be just as permanent.