''Terror Illustrated'' was a black-and-white magazine published by

EC Comics Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books, which specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950 ...

in late 1955 and early 1956. Part of EC's Picto-Fiction line, each magazine featured three to five stories. The format alternated blocks of text with several illustrations per page. The first issue appeared with a cover date of November–December 1955, but the second issue was the last. A third issue existed but was not printed by EC. The Picto-Fiction magazines lost money from the start, and the line was cancelled when EC's distributor went bankrupt. ''Terror Illustrated'' was edited by

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. As with EC's comics, Feldstein was the most prolific writer of the title, and generally wrote up to three stories per issue. In addition to the stories credited to him, Feldstein also wrote under the pseudonyms Maxwell Williams and Alfred E. Neuman. Feldstein included multiple retellings of previous stories, a move suggested by publisher

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. This included "The Basket" and "The Gorilla's Paw" in the first issue and "Horror in the Freak Tent" and "Reflection of Death" in #2. Other contributing writers included

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(who had worked as a writer on EC's earlier publications) and John Larner.Cochran, Russ. ''Complete EC Library: Terror Illustrated''. Gemstone, 2006. Featured illustrators included Reed Crandall,

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, George Evans,

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Johnny Craig John Thomas Alexis Craig (April 25, 1926 – September 13, 2001),John T. Craig
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, Charles Sultan and Jack Davis. In 2006 ''Terror Illustrated'' was reprinted along with the other Picto-Fiction magazines by publisher Russ Cochran (with

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) in hardbound volumes as the final part of his ''Complete EC Library''. The reprint volume included the previously unpublished third issue of ''Terror Illustrated''.

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