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The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Split Personality!", Johnny Craig’s chilling tale unfolds in a grim asylum where the line between prisoner and warden blurs. As the new headmaster, Hartley grapples with a terrifying ritual he doesn’t understand—only to wake in his bed, wondering if the night’s horrors were real or just a nightmare. With art and story by Johnny Craig and haunting colors by Marie Severin, this EC Archives entry delivers a slow-burn dread that lingers long after the final panel.
Contains 25 stories
Split Personality!
The Vault-Keeper (host)The Blair sisters [AmySusan] (villains)Ed King (villain, racketeer, death)
Who Doughnut?
The Crypt-Keeper (host)Danny Hughes (reporter, death)Pat (Danny's secretary, death)various Policemenan octopus (villain)
Practical Choke!
The Vault-Keeper (host)Bill GainesAl Feldsteinthree pre-med students (all die)various Police officers
Notes to You!
The Old Witch (host)Judson SlackEleanor Slack (Judson's wife, death)Horton CoxSimon Pitter (Cox's employee, death)Averill Minton (bank President, death)Bert Fields (bank employee)Mr. Popkin (candy store owner)Ambrose Baldwin (death)
Easel Kill Ya!
The Vault Keeper (host)young artistartist's fiancee (death)art enthusiastunnamed doctor (death)
A Peach of a Plot!
The Crypt-Keeper (host)Michael LaneLt. Phil Dolan
The Lake
The Vault-Keeper (host)a little boyMargaret (the grown-up little boy's wife)lifeguardTally (death, in flashback)
One Good Turn...
The Old Witch (host)Edwin (Jennifer's husband, death)Bert (Jennifer's old friend, death)Grace (Jennifer's acquaintance, death)Sidney (a small boy, death)a blind man (death)Thelma (an old woman, death)two detectives [Steveother unnamed]Jennifer (villain)
Whirlpool
The Vault-Keeper (host)unnamed womanthree asylum employees
Out of His Head!
The Crypt-Keeper (host)Stanley (Alex's law partner, death)unnamed doctorAlex Melton (villain, lawyer, death)
An Ample Sample
The Vault-Keeper (host)Hannah (Irwin's wife, death)BertIrwin (villain)
Funereal Disease!
The Old Witch (host)Jasper Milliken (gardener, death)Niles Fairchild (villain, Jasper's employer, death)Tom Kelton (villain, Jasper's accountant)
Together They Lie!
The Vault-Keeper (host)Agnes Wheatley (death)Mr. Horton (Agnes’s boss, death)Alex Fairchild (Horton's attorney)
Let the Punishment Fit the Crime!
The Crypt-Keeper (host)Clara CootesEdwin CootesHerbert Draper (mortician)Dr. StaceyFrank Bundage (store owner)George Sparkman (electrician)Mathilda Priddy (schoolteacher)Sye Shusters (lawyer)Judge DelaneyMrs. PhilipsFreddy Philips (death)
A Slight Case of Murder!
The Vault-Keeper (host)Doc Sam SwansonPhil Ingram (newspaper editor)Sheriff Moulton (villain, actually a deformed baby, death)Amelia Bates (Moulton's mother)
Strung Along!
The Old Witch (host)Tony Zargono (puppet maker, death)Nora (Tony's wife, death)
Star Light, Star Bright!
The Vault-Keeper (host)Hartley Quimb
While the Cat's Away...
The Crypt-Keeper (host)John YoungerFrank Weston
Smoke Wrings
The Vault-Keeper (host)Hubert Tillings (death)Lorna Jackson (villain, death)
Where There's a Will...
The Old Witch (host)Dr. James CrottyMillard Walker (lawyer)
...And All Through the House...
The Vault-Keeper (host)Santa Claus
Tombs-Day!
The Crypt-Keeper (host)Prof. BurtonMelody Allen
Beauty Rest
The Vault-Keeper (host)Helen CurtisJoyce Noble
Shoe-Button Eyes!
The Old Witch (host)Billy (young blind boy, death)Billy's mother (death)Billy's father (death)Jed (Billy's step-father, death)
Untitled story
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Full credits
writer, artist, inker Johnny Craig
colorist Marie Severin
letterer Jim Wroten
cover pencils, inks Johnny Craig
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