Moldoff then did approach Gaines with the package, signing a contract stipulating that he would be paid a royalty percentage if the books were successful. Several months later, when EC's "Tales From the Crypt" hit the newsstands, Gaines reneged on the deal, Moldoff recalled in 2000, with EC attorney Dave Alterbaum threatening to blacklist Moldoff if he took legal action. Afterward, said Moldoff, "Will Lieberson said, 'Let me bring it back to Fawcett again, and see if they'll take the title'. And so they did; they took "This Magazine Is Haunted" and "Worlds of Fear" and then "Strange Suspense Stories". What they did was pay me $100 for the title, and give me as much work as I wanted, and I also did the covers. So that went on that way".