Foul Play and Other Stories

When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he imbued his stories with a playful sense of (gallows) humour that made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his axe-murders more gleefully gruesome, and his revenge-seeking corpses more morbidly motivated than any other EC artist. These horror and suspense tales - from the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories - include frightful fare such as ''Hyde and Go Shriek!'', ''Tombs-Day!'', ''Witch Witch''s Witch!'', ''Head-Room!'', ''Chop Talk!'', ''Coffin Spell!'', and more, all leavened with the cackling, pun-laced wit of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis could present them. But the standout story has to be ''Foul Play,'' the most infamous of all EC horror stories, in which a baseball team takes revenge on a murderous rival player by, um (spoiler alert), ''repurposing'' various parts of his anatomy for one final blood-spattered, orga