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Published: 2023-10-24 16:08:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1279; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 0
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Howdy and welcome back to the Monster-Month of October AKA HELLOWEEN MONTH as we celebrate the month of October and the holiday of Halloween with scary sketches, dreadful doodles and eerie etchings! And today we stir the sticky stew of the black cauldron of EC Comics' horror host, The Old Witch!
These days it's that shriveled up old Crypt-Keeper who gets all of the press, but back in the heyday of Entertaining Comics, it was attention divided between three hosts and the other two were The Vault-Keeper and The Old Witch!
The Old Witch was the last of EC’s Horror Hosts to make her appearance—in THE HAUNT OF FEAR’s second issue debuted The Witch’s Cauldron feature, with her introducing herself in a story drawn by Jack Kamen. The third issue launched the letter column, “The Old Witch’s Niche”. And so she presided over each issue thereafter, dropping in pun-filled commentary to make up for the horrific fates of the poor souls in the tales she told.
Her origin appears in THE HAUNT OF FEAR #14 in a tale that recalls her birth entitled “A Little Stranger!”. In it, a vampire named Elicia and a werewolf named Zorgo were resurrected by other monsters using Satanic rites after a mob slew them. And when the two awoke, they celebrated by having sex, which left Elicia pregnant. The misshapen child she gave birth to would one day grow to become The Old Witch who delighted in frightening listeners with her tales of the macabre!

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