Tales From The Crypt British Edition

In 1954 the UK saw it's own short lived run of EC comic reprints. Two issues of Tales From The Crypt, one issue of The Haunt of Fear and supposedly one issue of The Vault of Horror though I have yet to find any images of Vault. Much like in american, horror comics in the UK were used as an easy target to blame for children behaving badly so that parents didn't have to face any hard truths about their own parenting ability. As always the government were quick to jump on the bandwagon so that they could appear to be fixing a complex problem but not having to actually do anything other than censoring harmless comic books with no evidence to back up any of the accusations against such material. EC comics were quickly banned in the UK and the few issues that were produced have become rather rare and almost forgotten.

Tales From the Crypt issue 35

Tales From the Crypt issue 35 by EC comics. Later reprinted in issue 2 of the Gladstone series.
The main story featured on the cover ‘By the fright of the silvery moon’ is a werewolf tale which was also loosely adapted for the Tales from the Crypt audio series. Being a fan of Werewolves, this has always been my favorite EC cover.
The second story features vampires and was adapted on screen for the Amicus Vault of Horror film in the 70s.
After a text story called ‘The Rack’ and another comic strip titled ‘Busted Marriage’ the last tale, ‘This Wraps It Up’ centers on a group of archaeologists encountering a Mummy. It was fun to have an issue featuring three classic monsters all in good stories.