Haunt of Fear #2 (1985)

A man born with two heads carries a basket around on his shoulder to prevent others from knowing of his condition. One of the heads is homicidal and when it begins to seize control, the good head opts for suicide.

A man fakes his death from the plague in order to have a perfect alibi for murdering his wife. But he doesn't count on his lover, the lovely Faye Booth, contracting the plague and being unable to unearth his coffin.

Rich, spoiled Amboy loves to drive his carriage at high speeds through the local village. He doesn't even mind when he runs someone over. But, his father has had enough, and he tells Amboy he'll have to take care of himself from now on. All he'll get is his own castle and his weight in gold for an allowance (poor guy, roughing it like that). To increase his allowance, Amboy starts swallowing balls of lead shot. But, while driving his carriage on another high-speed jaunt, he has to stop short. Well, Amboy stops short; the balls of lead in his stomach keep going. Ker-splat!

In 2902 B.C., King Khufu desires the lovely Nirrah to be his bride, but first, he must do away with the man she loves: Famu. When she learns Famu is dead, her father gives her the "Prayer for raising the dead", which she uses in the tomb itself. But the King seals her in the tomb for all time. Years later, members of a British Museum expedition discover the tomb and a similar scenario is played out.....but with a different result!

A man with a gangster past flees to Ireland and engages a woman who claims a Banshee wails when one of her kin is about to die. The gangsters catch up with him, but he survives several attempts on his life until his wedding night when he lunges out into thick fog in an effort to kill the gangsters but ends up accidentally shooting his new bride. He can now hear the wail of the Banshee as he realizes he is about to die, either as a victim of the gangsters or for the murder of his wife.

Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein hire an expert to help them write a new story about a Mars landing. How does he know so much? He's a Martian! Aaaahhhh!!!

Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein make up a humorous ad when one of their advertisers cancels on them. It's about a Martian vacation resort, round trip for $200. Later on, a happy reader drops in to thank them for helping him meet his new wife. She's a Martian! Aaaaahhhhh!!!

A man who keeps hounds starving for the foxhunt catches another guy making time with his wife. The wife tells him to pretend he's had a heart attack so the husband will dump his body down the road, but instead, since the husband is wise to them, he tosses the body into the dog kennel where it is ripped to shreds. The corpse returns to take revenge upon the husband.

Annette is thoroughly career-driven. She shuns men's attentions and buries herself in her work at an atomic testing lab. While Annette is cataloging supplies inside a bomb shelter, an experimental bomb explodes, seemingly killing everybody else on the planet. When Annette emerges from the shelter, she realizes how lonely her life will be without anybody else. Then, a phone rings. She frantically answers it, relieved that's she's not alone. The caller asks what her name is. When she tells him, he apologizes for dialing the wrong number and hangs up.

Three scientists have developed a rocket fuel that will enable space travel and, when mysterious signals are received from Venus, they decide that will be their destination. But, the voyage ends with a crash-landing and two of the scientists are killed. The remaining one is found by human-like Venusians and he tries to explain where he came from. They seem to understand, but they end up locking him up in a room with several Venusians. After learning their language, the scientist understands the problem. The cell is an insane asylum, and all the other inmates claim to be from Earth, too!

A man sets up a deal with the Jivaro head-hunter tribe to exchange his duped victims for large uncut diamonds. After his fourth victim is dispatched this way he receives a package at his doorstep. Upon opening the package he is terrified to see that it is the shrunken head of his last dupe. The head opens its eyes and glares at him. He drops the package and the head rolls free and attaches its teeth into his ankles, tripping him. Then the head tears his throat out.

A man tosses his steel mill boss into the vat after marrying the bosses' daughter thus inheriting the mill. Two of the ingots get made into an iron maiden for a museum exhibit and when he tries it out for size, it slams shut on him.

Two nephews attempt to grave rob their miser uncle at midnight for a diamond ring that he had buried with him. The corpse seizes them and re-buries all, with two young boys in the cemetery as witnesses who had been attempting a witchcraft spell for wart removal.

Two passengers from a downed plane wash up on an island where the only food appears to be fruit that grows on a tree enclosed behind a stockade. The previous occupant tells them from behind the wall that eating the fruit will make their skin rot off, but they don't believe he is sane and so come back to the enclosure later that night and partake of the fruit, but then they get a look at him...

A young woman marries a biologist in his 50s for his money but quickly tires of him. She gets him to fork over all his dough and then tells him she's leaving him for a younger man. He proposes a farewell toast and, unbeknown to her, spikes her drink with an aging hormone that turns her into a withered old crone.

A black humor version of "The Monkey's Paw."

An undertaker who overcharges for his services becomes paralyzed in an auto accident and buried alive because his partner doesn't bother to embalm him and uses all the tricks he learned while working with the victim to bilk the estate for the funeral costs.

A man and wife go on vacation in Europe where he meets a vampire that falls in love with him. Once he learns what she is he rejects her in disgust and she angrily replies that she'll kill him before she lets him go back to his wife, but he knocks her away. When he returns to the hotel room, his wife informs him that she had sought out the vampire and was attacked and turned into one of them and attacks him.

Policeman interview a child who appears to be about six and claims he is really 24 and lives no place while going around all day watching his 'Uncle Ekar' murdering people which is what he wants to do when he grows up. The kid tells the police where they can find Uncle Ekar and he shows, but tries to run off and the police shoot him dead whereupon they realize that the child was not lying and he really did have three eyes and a forked tongue. The kid gets adopted and the police check up on him where the mother tells them that his dog died last night. The last panel depicts the kid winking at the reader with an eye in the middle of his forehead and a forked tongue.

A washed-up matador loses the favor of his lady to a young new-comer so he buys a half-blind bull and torments it with a whip while teaching it to charge the smell of the perfumed handkerchief that he knows his lady will toss to the young matador to tuck into his belt. The bull gores the young matador and is then killed in turn. Later that evening the corpses of both the young matador and the bull take their revenge on the schemer as the matador holds him for the bull to gore.

A miser creates a blob-like creature in his cellar by mixing in the remains of his wife with those of a mouse, a cat, and mounds of refuse.

A woman grows to hate her doting husband so much that she throws a bottle of acid into his face, blinding and disfiguring him. During her trial, he professes to still love her and makes excuses for her action. Her lawyer advises her to play along, and she acts convincingly, so the jury lets her off. Unfortunately for her, her husband was only acting on the witness stand as well, in order to prevent her being sent to prison, so he could pour a bottle of acid into her face.

An exterminator has a dream after coming home from a job that he spots a cockroach on his floor. He gets up and strides over to it, bringing his shoe heel down upon the bug, whereupon it emits an ear-piercing shriek. This acts as a signal for all the bugs and rats the exterminator has ever killed to come pouring out of the walls and overwhelm him. Just as he is about to expire, he wakes up and sees a cockroach on the floor. Feeling annoyed at himself for having such an absurd dream, he crosses the floor and brings his shoe down upon it, whereupon the roach...screams.

Two business partners who own a fertilizer factory next to a cemetery decide to tunnel under ground into the caskets in order to fill a large order for bone meal fertilizer. After they succeed in filling the order, they decide to take a vacation upstate, but the car conks out beside a farm's corn patch. They move through the corn patch, which happens to have been fertilized by the order they filled, towards the farmhouse but do not make it as the corn husks become animated and beat them to death.