Haunt of Fear #5
"A Biting Finish!" from Haunt of Fear #5 (1951) delivers a chilling twist on rural betrayal, written, drawn, and inked by Johnny Craig in his signature stark, atmospheric style. The story follows a farmer whose jealousy turns deadly when he kills his wife’s lover and buries him with flower seeds—only for the wife to return and uncover the truth in the most unsettling way. The cover by Johnny Craig captures the tale’s grim tension, a fitting frame for this early EC horror gem.
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A farmer's wife and the hired hand are having an affair, so the farmer kills the hand one evening and buries him along with some flower seeds he had purchased that day in the field. When the farmer's wife leaves for the city to inquire as to Cliff's whereabouts, the farmer corners his wife in an alley and threatens her with violence. She clouts him with a lead pipe and stuffs him into a garbage can which the sanitation workers load into the compactor truck. When the wife returns to the farm through the field she comes across the newly sprouted flowers and realizes what must have happened.
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