The Vault of Horror (comics)

A greedy man murders his roommate and dumps the corpse in a vat of acid in order to profit from his artistic work. A strange old man and his creepy wax museum enter the man's life to exact some vengeance.

Walter Mallory is a rich heir who believes that he is the culprit of several gruesome murders about his estate. Murders that only happen on the night of a full moon.

Tom Hawkins owns a roadside motel and relates to his friend the story of his strange dream in which a man and his ghoulish wife rent a room and a night of murder ensues. But it's just a dream.

Gloria is convinced her husband Ralph is trying to kill her, so she runs off and boards a train. Problem is Ralph keeps popping up everywhere she looks, even in a lonely cabin that contains a single open coffin.

Bert and Florence have just done away with the latter's husband and dump his body into the sea next to the lighthouse he used to own, hoping to find a hidden stash of money near the place. Too bad that the ever-rotting corpse keeps washing up on the shore.

Charles, Sybil, Edgar are the last heirs to the crumbling remains of Harkley Heath which is reported to have a curse on it. When Charles and Edgar plot to get Sybil out of the way, they find out the true power of the curse.

Poor Doctor Lemonet must find a way to bring in more students into his anatomy classes, but there is a shortage in cadavers. So the good physician turns to grave robbing and a little foul play.

Steve and Alec's jet crashes into a lonely island in the Pacific, Alec seeming to have disappeared. Steve then comes upon a castle where a strange count and his manservant live. The count enjoys a good game of sport, especially when it comes to hunting humans.

A befuddled old husband realizes his beautiful wife is having an affair with a younger man and turns to a voodoo priest for assistance. He is given a doll in the likeness of his wife which he uses to inflict a little payback.

A group of hikers take residence in a mountaintop cabin but Jan Bodzla, the Romanian guide, believes that one of them is a ravenous werewolf and will do anything to kill the beast.

Abner Tucker uses his position as town historian to rob the graves of the wealthy but is pestered by the filthy rats that scuttle about the tunnels. He sets up traps to slay the rodents, but those furry fiends will chew through anything.

A you-are-the-narrator story where your car has stalled on a lonely road one dark and stormy night. You decide to seek shelter in a nearby cottage where the vampire husband and his ghoul wife are just dying to let you stay the night.

Henry is a struggling comic book writer whose rowdy friends throw parties every day in his apartment, so he rents a lonely house in the country which is rumored to be haunted. In an attempt to get him back, three of his friends plan to scare him out of the house with smoke and mirrors. If only they knew that something was lurking inside.

An old hermit relates to two travelers the story of a group of scientists who accidentally created an amoeba that devoured anything in its path and grew with each feeding. The travelers should have heeded the tale.

As part of his initiation into the Vault-Keeper's Club, Warren must go into the local cemetery and retrieve a watch from a recently deceased member. When he discovers a molding skeleton in its place, Warren unearths a mystery of murder and revenge.

Two carnival workers, Sam "The Great Zobo" and his girlfriend Rita, plot to blackmail a rich man of murdering the Great Zobo who has the talent of "shallow breathing." When Rita decides to leave Sam six feet under, a series of circumstances allow him to get revenge.

Hubert Antone is the manager of a hotel in Hungary whose customers are being murdered by what appears to be a savage animal. The arrival of a strange pianist adds to the mystery, and things start getting hairy.

Stanley is an orphan who goes to the home of his miserly Uncle Ezra and assists him in his undertaking business. Ezra is a fanatic penny pincher and decides to kill his nephew in order to fill an unwanted coffin. He's a bit too tall for it though.

Paul, Clyde and Roger attend a carnival where they see Pirro, The Wax Man who has the ability to stay completely still. Paul and Clyde plot to pull a practical joke on Roger by betting him that he could not spend an entire night in a room with a corpse (Pirro in actuality). When Pirro decides to scare Roger, the real horror begins.

Pete Luger is a hardened criminal who serves in the prison's rockyard, lugging bricks back and forth. He soon hits upon the idea to stow himself away in a coffin and be driven out of prison in the hearse. Once he seals himself up in the casket, the heat is on.

Jim Ryan gets stranded on the moors and decides to spend the night in a crumbling mansion nearby. The old man and his servant who live there seem to be oblivious to the bloodcurdling screams and frantic scratchings that ring out in the house.

Barton Gordon applies for the job of superintendent at an apartment and meets the ghoulish-looking and strangely mannered landlord Marcus Kingsley who insists that his room be refrigerated at all times. When the air conditioner busts, a foul odor emanates from Kingley's room.

Tom believes his brother Andrew was inflicted with the curse of the werewolf on a hunting trip and the recent string of murders seem to confirm his suspicions. He sets a trap for his brother and plans to end his mayhem once and for all.

George Barker visits Haiti to have a voodoo bust of his likeness made and the strange priest performs the weird ritual. Returning to the States, George remains young as the bust takes on the evil of his deeds.

Sick of her boring farm life and stingy, elderly husband Aldous, Shirley knocks him over the head with a frying pan and hurls the body into a yawning sink hole. But she should've known that all's well that ends well.

The brilliant Dr. Johnstone gets in a terrible car accident and must have his right hand removed. Devastated, he murders a wino, cuts off his hand and buries him in the garden. Johnstone then attempts to revive the hand in his laboratory.

Ken purchases a ghoulish zombie mask from a dusty costume shop, the eerie proprietor stating that his masks reflect the character of the people who wear them. After spying on his cheating wife, he meets a mysterious woman in a vampire mask at a masquerade who shows him a fangtastic time.

Dr. Perdo arrives in a small town offering a miracle formula to help cure obesity in the form of capsules. The results are amazing as the customers start slimming down... and then waste away. And when the town physician examines one of the corpses, he reveals just what was inside the pills.

A seemingly sweet young man marries into a rich Southern family to reap all the benefits, and ultimately tears up the family, but only to be visited by a very angry, vengeful ancestor.

Two doctored brothers find their relationship torn when one sends the other to jail for "tampering" with a patient's insulin, but while in jail the brother decides to create a revengeful plan.

An abusive father gets his just deserts at the hands of his young daughter after she befriends a peculiar neighbor.

An unfaithful wife decides to get involved with another man when her husband becomes terminally ill, and meets him every couple of years deep in the marsh, even when he's been dead for years...

A renowned lion trainer finds herself horribly disfigured after she's attacked by a panther, and locks herself away from the world, until she meets Steve, her sweet talking limo driver and soon marries him. But she soon finds that he is only in it for the money, and decides to take revenge on his beauty too by using witchcraft.

A lazy vampire decides to work for a blood bank since he doesn't like killing to quench his thirst, but when the bank goes into debt, he decides to help fill it up... with the blood of innocent townsfolk.

Peggy, a young girl, finds herself in the care of her wicked aunt and uncle when her Grandma dies from heart failure, a death that could have been stopped by the aunt and uncle who are after her money. But when the will is read, they find that Peggy has inherited all her Grandma's money, so they decide to do away with the little girl, but not if Grandma has anything to say about it!

An old insane asylum is run by a cruel, wicked man who delights in beating and torturing his patients, only to find that revenge can really be the nuts!

Harry and Olga, a married circus couple, find their life torn apart, when Olga is turned into a vampire and cannot control her quench for human blood, including Harry's own blood, but how can she be stopped?

A crazed, lonely zookeeper obsessed with the crocodile pit, sees to it that they are fed promptly and suitably, even going as far as to supplying them with what the maneaters crave: man.

Four boys find themselves victims of harassment by a mean, nasty man who won't let anyone near his house, so after catching him beat his wife to death, and steal their football, they decide to get even by scaring him... to death

A con man boards a train to lie low for a while and finds himself in a small house that has been rumored to be cursed, so he kills the owner and decides to hide out there, but does indeed find that the land is cursed.

When Ken's sister Eileen ages to death overnight while in the care of a woman by the name Madame DuBois, he decides to find out the truth by following her new young female assistant, which leads to the "rotten" truth

Two geologists and an eskimo find a grotesque body frozen in ice and decide to bring it back with them, but while traveling they realize the body might actually be the body of the true Frankenstein, and soon find it missing...

Two friends go fishing together at a local beach, where Max shows off his mean-spirited nature by making all the fish he catches suffer gruesome deaths while Steve protests. But later on in the day, Max finds himself in the fins of death, and learns what goes around comes around.

Betty, a lonely, blind woman lives her life by sending out her trusted dog to fetch supplies and food for her, until one day when he is struck by a car. The driver takes him to the vet and gets him fixed up and returns him to Betty, where he falls in love with her, only to die in a car crash while leaving. Betty becomes depressed when she never hears from the man again, and sends out her dog to find him, but she should be careful what she wishes for...

A sewing machine sweat shop run by a cruel, heartless man erupts into terror when the factory girls decide to get even with their cruel boss after he mistreats one of the girls.

Ernie, the spoiled cocky owner of a soap company finds that the former owner, who "mysteriously disappeared" has returned in the form of a bar of soap to "cleanse" Ernie's soul...

Red Buckley, a sleazy con artist, finds his way to a rich plantation where he assists for the wealthy owner who has a renowned black pearl hidden somewhere on the plantation. With Kulu, the native servant of the plantation, Red devises a plan of murder and robbery, but soon finds himself in over his head.

A greedy widow meets a rich widower in a cemetery and begins to hit it off hoping to inherit his fortune, but her fear of spiral staircases ultimately decides her doom.

A mortician begins dating a beautiful young woman who helps him find an assistant, a creepy, weird assistant who has a habit of disappearing whenever a vampire related death strikes the town...

A poor elderly man decides to save his earnings during the winter to have a proper burial for his recently deceased wife, but how will she keep til then?

Emma, an everyday housewife finds herself plagued by nightmares that show what happens in the future, and tries to save her family from the fate that lies ahead.

Two con car salesmen begin to sell their doomed cars to poor innocent people, only to find that no "good" deed goes unpunished.

Two con artists target a rich man whose wife believes in psychics, spirits, and mediums, but find that ghosts and spirits are nothing to BOOl around with...

A heavyweight boxer is blackmailed by a fellow boxer into losing the fight between them, but when he loses his life as well, the boxer returns for one more match...

A rich sportsman hires an African safari expert to help him navigate while traveling the world and brings him home to meet his fiancée, but with the help of black magic, his safari expert can make any of his wishes come scarily true.

Anita, a middle aged woman who spends all her time caring for stray animals, finds her life turned inside out when her annoyed pet hating husband begins a new hobby...taxidermy! And Anita's strays will do just fine...

A vampire and a ghoul begin to date eager to kill one another for nourishment, but find they really love each other, but will love keep them away from each other's throats when they get snowed in at a cabin?...

Four counsel men devise a plan to build a road over a cemetery to expand their resources, but the dead have their own opinions....

A man finds that he has multiple personalities, his good side and a bad, wicked side, so he travels to Haiti to find a voodoo priest to kill the bad side, only to find out he should have known how literal the deal was...

A lonely middle aged woman spends her time waiting for her boyfriend, Stanley to pop the question, the only problem, Stanley is supposedly in love with fishing, so she comes up with a plan to really hook, line, and sink her man.

A nerdy sculptor uses his beautiful girlfriend as his model for his sculptures, but when he catches her with another man, he sculpts one last sculpture with her as not just the model...

Lionel Byrd is a quiet, odd old man who travels everywhere in a hearse-wagon, and no one knows why, why he nevers get off it or why he lives all alone in a cabin in the woods. But when two criminals hold up in his cabin, they unfortunately find out the whole truth.

A monstrous blob begins to terrorize a small town, and with the help of the town doctor, they figure out where it came from and why it's happening, but how can it be stopped?

Once upon a time, a selfish king and queen owned a kingdom infested with rats, rats that ate everything(and everyone) they could get, but the king and queen loved rats and wouldn't have them killed, so the townspeople found a way to get even...

A rich estate owner marries his wife in Haiti, but soon loses her to a rare tropical disease, thinking that his life is over, he entrusts in his native servant to create a voodoo ritual to bring her back. But this love spell isn't all it's croaked up to be....

Three saw mill workers are presented with an offer to create wooden discs for the government, and greedily accept, but soon jealousy, greed, and murder begin to get in the way...

A bell ringer's assistant becomes jealous after waiting thirty four years to ring the bell, and murders him in cold blood, but he soon learns he should have been scareful what he wished for!

Three friends find themselves stalked and murdered by Henri, their fourth friend who they pushed off a train in order to earn his money.

A man kills his elderly uncle in order to sell the family castle. This plan backfires when he tries to tear down the attached mausoleum.

A child-hating schoolteacher is caught up in a sinister playground game.

In a mythical kingdom, a peasant child is sent to the royal castle to be a companion to the spoiled young prince, but his family receives a surprise on Christmas Day ...

Two conmen begin soliciting the homeless for "blood donations" to be sold on to the hospital, but when one of their victims gives a little too much blood, they find themselves paying the price.

A conman tricks a pair of reclusive twin sisters into dating him so he can get his hands on their money, with terrifying results when they discover the ruse.

A crime reporter believes there is a supernatural explanation behind a series of strange killings in town.

Three medical students use the dismembered parts of a corpse to play gruesome pranks. The corpse, however, has other ideas.

A group of men seek revenge on the writer of anonymous "poison pen" letters which have brought disaster to the town.

An impoverished artist begins to commit murders so he can paint pictures of gruesome death scenes to satisfy a sadistic collector.

When a man denies murdering his wife seven years previously, a very vital clue turns out to be growing in his garden ...

Written by Ray Bradbury. A man returns to the scene of where his first love drowned many years before.

A charitable woman has an unusual way of "helping" the people in her care.

A woman finds herself in an endless tortured nightmare, a nightmare which she can't seem to wake from.

A lawyer kills his law partner with a cleaver to the head and disposes his body, only to see him everywhere when he gets back to his lonely penthouse late that night.

Irwin and Hannah were the perfect couple, until Hannah began spending all their money on boxes of chocolate and candy, fattening herself up and leaving them poor, but soon she finds that "you are what you eat", is dead right...

An old man saves up his money so he can have a proper burial with flowers, music, and mourners, since his family was buried in a wood box under the ground, but when two "friends" of the family decide to do away with him and steal his money, burying him in the ground in a coffin, he comes back for a proper burial, he just needs a body.....

A rich man finds his life turned upside down when his wife dies in a fire, but finds out the half truth about the fire by his scheming maid and lawyer, but secrets don't make friends....from the grave....

A town slowly catches onto the true horror of a group of kids carrying a coffin to a grave, when they think about the questions they asked the town lawyer, doctor, funeral director, and electrician.

Doc Swanson, travels to a nearby town that is being terrorized by a string of bloody female murders with an answer to who (or what) is committing the crimes.

Tony, a renowned puppet master, is forced into retirement when his heart gives out, and finds that his wife never loved him, and was only with him for the money. But at least his marionettes are with him to keep him company, even carrying out his wishes...

A man takes the position as master of an insane asylum, and begins to become paranoid that the inmates are out to get him, but that can't be right...can it?

John and Frank, two sleazy travel agents, use their job to send rich people on beautiful vacations so they can rob their houses while they're gone, but the two find themselves in one mighty fine predicament when they break into a house of horrors.

A shy, nerdy salesman sells his idea about expanding the production of cigarettes to the company's business savvy female boss. But when she decides to keep the idea and get the salesmen out of the picture, she finds she may also get "burned"..

Mr. Farber, a dying old man wants to pass on his money to his "loving" family instead of towards a children's orphanage, but finds out (with the help of his lawyer) that maybe his family just wants the money, so they stage a phony funeral, with deadly results.

A housewife murders her husband on Christmas Eve only to find she is trapped in the house by an escaped mental patient dressed up as Santa Claus, a CHEER classic!

A group of expediters in search of a missing group of people who traveled into an Egyptian tomb, find themselves locked in the same tomb with the terror that left the first group dead.

Helen, a jealous wannabe model/actress, decides to steal her roommate Joyce's moment in glory as Miss Corpse of 1954, but finds that modeling can be murder...

A little boy who was born blind, finds comfort in his teddy bear with blue shoe button eyes and his single mother, but when his mother remarries an abusive drunk, he learns that toys can really be loyal....

A man murders his wife and her adulterous lover with the promise they will now be "together forever." He soon finds out how true this is when he attempts to recover his car from the scene of the crime.

A young nobleman causes scandal by abandoning his fiancée to marry a new woman. When an evil plague strikes the town, his bride is accused of sorcery, but is she really the witch responsible?

In ancient China, an old man who frequents an opium den discovers that his smoke-induced hallucinations are coming true.

A young boy barely escapes with his life after witnessing a murder. Many years later, he attempts to kill his own adulterous wife, but finds his past coming back to haunt him.

A handsome, young man drives to a town where he's inherited some land, and goes out for a night on the town, finding an unmapped road that leads to a dance party at a mansion, a dance party that proves history has a nasty way of repeating itself...

Emil, an average everyday civilian kills his lover when she ends their relationship, and finds that her husband is his executioner with more than just an axe to bury...

An old man looking for money, takes a job as a caretaker for a lonely, old house where a rich, dying man was murdered by his assistant, the only problem, the killer was never apprehended and that's not just the house making noises...

A hard nosed cop who finds pleasure in booking criminals catches an old woman stealing from a grocery store and arrests her, throwing her in jail for sixty days despite her pleas about her so-called husband, Henry.

A rude fisherman stops in a harbor where legend has it that a sea hag claims any man she meets, not believing the legend, he goes out to sea to deliver his shipped goods, finding a light house, and that the legend may not just be a legend...

Nadyi and Janos, two grave robbers rob graves to supply a college professor cadavers for his students to dissect, but when they discover several coffins in a mausoleum, they find that this grave robbing may be their last.

Two Italian men rob a man of his silver and decide to hide it in the catacombs till the police stop looking, only problem is that the wine trail they left has mysteriously vanished, and their lantern is about to go out.

Clyde Evans, a circus marvel by the name The Great Brain begins to mistreat his slow, but giant assistant Benny, who turns to one of the top dancers, Hulda for help. She soon falls in love with Benny and tries to protect him, but finds that she too is victim to Clyde, so finally Benny decides to stand up for himself, ending the showdown with a bloody finish.

A struggling writer finds himself stranded on a swamp background, and seeks shelter in a burned house owned by the beautiful Eloise, a girl he would gladly die for.

Three struggling actors come across a theatre and meet the frazzled director and beg him for a part, but soon the friends begin to turn on each other for the part, a part that's a dead guarantee.

A king finds himself falling for a beautiful woman who is locked up for execution, and decides to have a sorcerer cleanse her soul, and rid her of the devil she is possessed by, but not all intentions are pure...

Millie, a crude bluebeard-ess, answers an ad about an old rich man seeking company, and moves in with him, only to find that he hides his money somewhere in the house, that is if the rats that have infested the house, haven't found it.

A frontiersman and his wife take pity on the town pariah, an elderly hunchback named Mose, and hire him as a handyman on their ranch. Things go well at first, until a dead body is found, brutally slaughtered.

A dying yachtsman tells two Coast Guard officers about his and his fiancée's nightmarish stay on the island of Castle Harrow, and how they escaped. At least, he thought they had.

To pay for their wives' extravagant lifestyles, two men secretly hold cockfights and dog fights, until Lila and Beatrice's vicious jealousy of one another drives them to hold a catfight.

In a twist on the Frankenstein story, father and son have passed down an experiment to create life by artificially stimulating evolution in ooze dug from the primordial muck of a swamp. Finally, the experiment has birthed life, and Emil, last of the Frankensteins, is to oversee the creature's rearing into adulthood, and finally the wedding to its unsuspecting betrothed.