Vault of Horror #25 (1952)

Marko had worked his way from the slums to a pro boxing career. However, when suddenly he has two visitors that pull a gun on him and take him away to the training camp of the man he is to fight next: Jake Houseman, Houseman offers to pay Marko any sum he asks to lose that fight, but refuses and is allowed to leave. When Marko's boy is kidnapped, Marko takes a terrible beating, and falls over in the 7th round, dead! Six months later, Marko’s rotting corpse drags Houseman to the sparring ring and proceeds to rip Houseman to shreds with his bony hand!

As Bracken's body sunk into the muck, Flath began to smirk as he sloshed back to his boat, realizing that soon the jungle insects would strip the body clean of its flesh. He marveled at this paradise, where he could so easily dispose of a body so easily. As Flath paddled laborously through the reeds, he sweated terribly, and all he could think of was getting out of this channel He could see the prow of his other boat, dreading having to get out of his canoe and wade five yards to that boat with only his head above water. Upon reaching the boat, he started pulling himself out of the water and discovered that he had leeches all over him. He swatted them off, only to have others attach themselves, weighing him back down into the water....crawling into his mouth and nostrils, until Flath disappeared beneath the surface. Yes, indeed this WAS a paradise for getting rid of a man without a trace!

Fred Hamilton, having visited the Belgian Congo for a hunting expedition, was now on his way home with B'uuna, his servant, to wed his fiancée, Louise. Louise presented B'uuna with a present: an Easter egg with a scene of a rabbit and tiny eggs inside. He thanked her, but sensed something wasn't quite right. From conversation B'uuna overheard, he believes Louise did not want to marry his new master. As Louise left the apartment she was grabbed from behind. Fred awakened to B'uuna's chanting in the hall. To Fred's horror, B'uuna handed him the Easter egg, with his fiancée now inside!

Anna had always loved animals and one day she saw a stray cat and brought it in to feed, but Jonah didn't approve of her habit of taking in every stray animal she came across. To get even at Anna, Jonah started his new hobby: taxidermy, and his first "patient" was going to be the mouse running around their home. He caught it, stuffed it, then went outside to lure a squirrel, then a bird, and then a dog to practice his craft on. Anna screamed at him until she was blue in the face, but it did no good. One day Jonah came to her and said that his collection of stuffed animals was almost complete....he smiled and left. Meanwhile, Anna kept calling the cat she'd found a few days earlier, then, when it couldn't be found, realized what her husband had meant. Running to the basement, she found the cat freshly stuffed.....with a crazed look in her eye, she turned toward Jonah, knife in hand, and told him that his collection still lacked one more thing. The next day, a neighbor found Anna in the basement, babbling incoherently, stroking her stuffed cat, and sitting next to.....her stuffed husband!