Vault of Horror #28
In "Till Death...", three partners in a small sawmill are drawn into a deadly game of greed and deception when a mysterious government contract promises fortune—until one of them is cheated out of his share and meets a gruesome end. As the surviving men try to bury their guilt, a chilling presence stirs beneath the soil, and the mill’s cutting machines become instruments of retribution. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with sharp, unsettling art by Jack Davis and bold coloring by Marie Severin, this classic EC horror tale delivers a chilling blend of suspense and moral dread. The cover, by Johnny Craig, captures the story’s eerie tone with a haunting, shadowed image of a man reaching from the earth.
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Sigmund was buzzed on his intercom that Colonel Turner was there to see him and his two partners, Henning and Field. The Colonel was there to tell them that their sawmill had been chosen ror a highly secret government contract to produce thin wooden discs, at a rate of 60,000 per month. They agreed, but then wondered how they could produce that many until Field arrived at a solution with a new type of saw. Later, Henning and Darby muse over a way to keep all the profits for themselves, cutting Field out by engaging him in poker matches and taking him to the cleaners by winning his share in the saw mill.....which they did. After he walked out of the game, he shot himself and was buried.....and as Darby and Henning walk away, they muse over the marked deck they had used on Field. What they didn't see was a rotting hand rising from Field's grave that followed the two back to the mill, where screams are heard. The next morning, the mill foreman walked into open up and saw Darby and Henning standing stiffly next to the cutting machine in a pool of blood. When he touched them, they fell over.....minutely sliced into thousands of thin layers!
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