About this Collection
This comprehensive hardcover collects every EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's stories, originally published in titles like Tales from the Crypt and Weird Science-Fantasy during the 1950s. Featuring artwork by legendary EC artists such as Al Williamson, Wally Wood, and Bernie Krigstein, the volume showcases Bradbury's darkly imaginative tales brought to life in the classic EC horror and science fiction style. It includes all 27 adaptations, plus historical essays and restored original art, making it an essential archive for fans of both Bradbury and EC Comics.
In the year 2963, a lone explorer named Jerome Kraft arrives on a distant planet with a mission to document life—armed with four years of supplies and a promise of return. When his ship is lost and his mission forgotten, he finds himself among a primitive people who see his advanced knowledge as divine. Written by William M. Gaines and Al Feldstein, and illustrated with striking precision by Wally Wood—both in story and on the cover—this haunting tale explores faith, power, and the unintended legacy of compassion. The cover, also by Wally Wood, captures the quiet intensity of a man caught between worlds.
Contains 36 stories
The Lake
6 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Vault-Keeper (host)a little boyMargaret (the grown-up little boy's wife)lifeguardTally (death, in flashback)
The Small Assassin!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Handler
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Old Witch (host)Mr. Rodgers (druggist)Mr. Stuyvesant (a contractor)Mr. Flinger (delicatessen man)various corpses [Mr. SmithMr. AndrewsMrs. WaltersMiss BrownMrs. ShellmundMr. Wren (a racist)Edmund Worththree unnamed gossipsunnamed lawyerrest unnamed]Merriwell Blythe (death)Mr. Benedict (villain, mortician, death)
The Coffin!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Let's Play Poison!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Crypt-Keeper (host)Mr. Howard
There Was an Old Woman!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Old Witch (host)Emily (Tildy's housekeeper)Aunt Tildy (death)a group of morticians [Mr. Carrington (Mortuary President)others unnamed]
Just Desserts!
8 pp · Crime
Jimmy (Bernard's son, death)Cora (Bernard's wife, death)Irving (Bernard's best friend, death)Clorissa (Bernard's Aunt, death)Julius (Bernard's business partner, death)Fanny (a nurse, death)Fanny's unnamed boy friend)Joe (Julius' employee)Bernard (villain)
What the Dog Dragged In!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Vault-Keeper (host)Betty MarshJerry the dogRoger Cartwright
A Strange Undertaking...
8 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Old Witch (host)Ezra Deepley (undertaker, death)Clem Bookin (cemetery caretaker)Mrs. Bridgeman (voice only)John Bridgeman (Mrs. Bridgeman's husband, dentist, cameo, also in flashback, death)Fredrick Dunhill (town Mayor, cameo, also in flashback, death)Horace Streetwall (banker, cameo, also in flashback, death)Dr. Claude Fowler (cameo, also in flashback, death)
Model Nephew
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
A Work of Art!
8 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
A Lesson In Anatomy!!
7 pp · Science Fiction
Stevey WilliamsDr. Williams (county coroner, Stevey's father)Martha Williams (the doctor's wife)Sheriff Amesa stranger (villain, a robot, death)two alien beings (villains)
Mars Is Heaven!
8 pp · Science Fiction
The Silent Towns
8 pp · Science Fiction
Walter GrippeGenevieve Selsor
The Long Years!
7 pp · Science Fiction
There Will Come Soft Rains...
7 pp · Science Fiction
The Million Year Picnic
7 pp · Science Fiction
unnamed fatherunnamed motherparent's children [MikeRobertTimothy]
Mad Journey!
7 pp · Science Fiction
Rodney Simon (President of Crown Oil Company, rocket builder)Jeffreys (lab scientist, death)Alan Corlin (USAF scientist, death)Axel (Crown Oil executive)Mr. Buddins (Crown Oil executive)
Home To Stay!
6 pp · Science Fiction
Zero Hour
7 pp · Science Fiction
Mary MorrisMink Morris (daughter of Mary Morris)Henry Morris (Mary's husband)Joseph ConnersAnnaPeggy AnnHelen (Mary's friend in New York)Tim (Helen's son)Drill (villain, a Martian)
Outcast of the Stars
7 pp · Science Fiction
He Walked Among Us
6 pp · Science Fiction
Touch and Go!
8 pp · Crime
Arthur Huxley (death)William Acton (villain)
The Flying Machine
6 pp · Historical
Emperor YuanYuan's servantHo (the flying man, death)
A Sound of Thunder
7 pp · Science Fiction
Mr. Eckles (hunter)Mr. Travis (a guide)Keith (President of the U.S., mention only)Lyman (Keith's opponent, mention only)Billings (hunter)Kramer (hunter)TravisLesper
King of the Grey Spaces!
8 pp · Science Fiction
Ralph PrioryChristopherChristopher's mother
I, Rocket
7 pp · Science Fiction
A Rocketship (narrator)Captain LambHillarySkipAyres (crew member, Navigator, death)Conrad (crew member, death)Slop (ship's cook, death)Larion (villain, death)Belloc (villain, death)
The October Game
8 pp · Horror-Suspense
Louise Wilder (Mitch's wife)Marion Wilder (Louise and Mitch's daughter, death)HelenMitch Wilder (villain)
The Black Ferris!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Crypt-Keeper (host)two boysrich womanthief (villain)
Surprise Package
7 pp · Science Fiction
Leonard Hill (mention only)robotic Leonard Hill (death)Martha (villain, death)
The One Who Waits
7 pp · Science Fiction
A Soul Well (host)Regent (death)Jones (death)Captain Sessions (death)Captain Samuel Mathews (death)William Spaulding (death)Forrest Cole (death)John Summers (death)
Punishment Without Crime
7 pp · Science Fiction
George HillKatherine Hill [aka Katie] (George's wife)Leonard Phelps (Katherine's lover)Katherine (a marionette, death)Smith (a Policeman)
The Screaming Woman!
7 pp · Crime
Margaret LearyMrs. Leary (Margaret's mother)Mr. Leary (Margaret's father)Mr. KellyMr. PikeEmma PikeMrs. GriswoldHelen NesbittCharlie Nesbitt (villain)
The Jellyfish!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Crypt-Keeper (host)Howard Norton (Charles' brother, business co-owner and chemist)Charles Norton (villain, business co-owner, death)
Blind Alleys
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Vault-Keeper (host)unnamed blind peopleGunner's unnamed lady friendBrutus (Gunner's dog)Gunner Grunwald (villain, home's director, eventual death)
The Long Years!
7 pp · Science Fiction
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