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Tales from the Crypt TV show/comic reference guide.

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The Troll King

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I've just recently finished watching the HBO Tales from the Crypt TV show and I really enjoyed doing so. I remember many of the episodes from when it first ran and several of them gave me the creeps just as much now as when they first aired. The show ran for 7 seasons on HBO before they finally pulled the plug.

 

There were 93 episodes and all but two of them actually came from EC comics! What I've done below is created a season by season reference as to which episode came from which comic. You'll notice as you go through this that since all of the comics contained several stories sometimes more than one TV episode was culled from the same book.

 

I'll also provide links to the IMDB season list and the individual comics on the Comic Book Database.

Ok, here we go. Season 1

 

Episode 1 "The Man Who Was Death"

The Crypt of Terror #17

 

Episode 2 "And All Through the House"

The Vault of Horror #35

This is actually the famous "coffin under the Christmas tree" book. Definitely one of the creepier episodes.

 

Episode 3 "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone"

The Haunt of Fear #21

 

Episode 4 "Only Sin Deep"

The Haunt of Fear #24

 

Episode 5 "Lover Come Hack to Me"

The Haunt of Fear #19

 

Episode 6 "Collection Completed"

The Vault of Horror #25

 

That's it for Season One (it was a short season)

 

Season 2

 

Episode 1 "Dead Right"

Shock Suspenstories #6

 

Episode 2 "The Switch"

Tales from the Crypt #45

 

Episode 3 "Cutting Cards"

Tales From the Crypt #32

 

Episode 4 "'Til Death"

The Vault of Horror #28

 

Episode 5 "Three's a Crowd"

Shock Suspenstories #11

 

Episode 6 "The Thing From the Grave"

Tales From the Crypt #22

 

Episode 7 "The Sacrifice"

Shock Suspenstories #10

 

Episode 8 "For Cryin' Out Loud"

Shock Suspenstories #15

 

Episode 9 "Four-Sided Triangle"

Shock Suspenstories #17

 

Episode 10 "The Ventriloquist's Dummy"

Tales From the Crypt #28

 

Episode 11 "Judy, You're Not Yourself Today"

Tales From the Crypt #25

 

Episode 12 "Fitting Punishment"

The Vault of Horror #16

 

Episode 13 "Korman's Kalamity"

Tales From the Crypt #31

 

Episode 14 "Lower Berth"

Tales From the Crypt #33

This episode is actually the origin story of the Cryptkeeper and surprisingly gets noted in Overstreet for the issue being his origin as well.

 

Episode 15 "Mute Witness to Murder"

The Crypt of Terror #18

 

Episode 16 "Television Terror"

The Haunt of Fear #17

 

Episode 17 "My Brother's Keeper"

Shock Suspenstories #16

 

Episode 18 "The Secret"

The Haunt of Fear #24

This is the first issue to have more than one story used from it and also brings us to the end of Season 2!

 

Season 3:

 

Epsiode 1 "The Trap"

Shock Suspenstories #18

 

Episode 2 "Loved to Death"

Tales From the Crypt #25

 

Episode 3 "Carrion Death"

Shock Suspenstories #9

 

Episode 4 "Abra Cadaver"

Tales From the Crypt #37

 

Episode 5 "Top Billing"

The Vault of Horror #39

 

Episode 6 "Dead Wait"

The Vault of Horror #23

 

Episode 7 "The Reluctant Vampire"

The Vault of Horror #20

 

Episode 8 "Easel Kill You:"

The Vault of Horror #31

 

Episode 9 "Undertaking Palor"

Tales From the Crypt #39

 

Episode 10 "Mournin' Mess"

Tales From the Crypt #38

 

Episode 11 "Split Second"

Shock Suspenstories #4

 

Episode 12 "Deadline"

Shock Suspenstories #12

 

Episode 13 "Spoiled"

The Haunt of Fear #26

 

Episode 14 "Yellow"

Shock Suspenstories #1

This is by far one of my favorite episodes. One of the few that Robert Zemeckis directed starring Kirk Douglas and his son Eric Douglas who later commited suicide. Sadly the relationship between father and son in this episode was said to have mirrored real life.

 

On to Season 4:

 

Episode 1 "None But the Lonely Heart"

Tales From the Crypt #33

 

Episode 2 "This'll Kill Ya"

Crime Suspenstories #23

 

Episode 3 "On a Deadman's Chest"

The Haunt of Fear #12

 

Episode 4 "Seance"

The Vault of Horror #25

 

Episode 5 "Beauty Rest"

The Vault of Horror #35

 

Episode 6 "What's Cookin"

The Haunt of Fear #12

 

Episode 7 "The New Arrival"

The Haunt of Fear #25

 

Episode 8 "Showdown"

Two-Fisted Tales #37

This is the only HBO episode that used a story from Two-Fisted. There were some movie adaptions from the title.

 

Episode 9 "King of the Road"

This was an original episode to the series. One of only two.

 

Episode 10 "Maniac at Large"

Crime Suspenstories #27

 

Episode 11 "Split Personality"

The Vault of Horror #30

 

Episode 12 "Strung Along"

The Vault of Horror #33

 

Episode 13 "Werewolf Concerto"

The Vault of Horror #16

 

Episode 14 "Curiosity Killed"

Tales From the Crypt #36

 

Season 5

 

Episode 1 "Death of Some Salesmen"

The Haunt of Fear #15

 

Episode 2 "As Ye Sow"

Shock Suspenstories #14

 

Episode 3 "Forever Ambergris"

Tales From the Crypt #44

 

Episode 4 "Food for Thought"

Tales From the Crypt #40

 

Episode 5 "People Who Live in Brass Hearses"

The Vault of Horror #27

 

Episode 6 "Two For the Show"

Crime Suspenstories #17

 

Episode 7 "House of Horror"

Tales From the Crypt #21

 

Episode 8 "Well Cooked Hams"

Tales From the Crypt #27

 

Episode 9 "Creep Course"

The Haunt of Fear #23

 

Episode 10 "Came the Dawn"

Shock Suspenstories #9

 

Episode 11 "Oil's Well That Ends Well"

Tales From the Crypt #34

 

Episode 12 "Half-Way Horrible"

The Vault of Horror #26

 

Episode 13 "Till Death Do Us Part"

The Haunt of Fear #12

 

Season 6

 

Episode 1 "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime"

The Vault of Horror #33

 

Episode 2 "Only Skin Deep"

Tales From the Crypt #38

 

Episode 3 "Whirlpool"

The Vault of Horror #32

 

Episode 4 "Operation Friendship"

Tales From the Crypt #41

 

Episode 5 "Revenge is the Nuts"

The Vault of Horror #20

 

Episode 6 "The Bribe"

Shock Suspenstories #7

 

Episode 7 "The Pit"

The Vault of Horror #40

 

Episode 8 "The Assassin"

Shock Suspenstories #17

 

Episode 9 "Staired in Horror"

The Vault of Horror #23

 

Episode 10 "In the Groove"

Crime Suspenstories #21

 

Episode 11 "Surprise Party"

The Vault of Horror #37

 

Episode 12 "Doctor of Horror"

The Vault of Horror #13

 

Episode 13 "Comes the Dawn"

The Haunt of Fear #26

 

Episode 14 "99 & 44/100% Pure Horror"

The Vault of Horror #23

 

Episode #15 "You, Murderer"

Shock Suspenstories #14

 

Season 7 (The last and final season)

 

Episode 1 "Fatal Caper"

Tales From the Crypt #20

It should be noted that this episode only has the same title as the story from the comic as the plots are very different.

 

Episode 2 "Last Respects"

Tales From the Crypt #23

Here again it appears that only the title was used as the stories are very different.

 

Episode 3 "A Slight Case of Murder"

The Vault of Horror #33

 

Episode 4 "Escape"

The Vault of Horror #16

 

Episode 5 "Horror in the Night"

The Vault of Horror #12

 

Episode 6 "Cold War"

Tales From the Crypt #43

 

Episode 7 "The Kidnapper"

Shock Suspenstories #12

 

Episode 8 "Report From the Grave"

The Vault of Horror #15

 

Episode 9 "Smoke Wrings"

The Vault of Horror #34

 

Episode 10 "About Face"

The Haunt of Fear #27

 

Episode 11 "Confession"

Shock Suspenstories #4

 

Episode 12 "Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow"

Tales From the Crypt #24

 

Episode 13 "The Third Pig"

Last and final episode and is the second of two original episodes written for the series. Also to note, this episode is animated!

 

Here is the link to the IMDB episode by season list.

 

 

I've collected this data from various sources including horror magazines, comics, tv.com, comicbookdb.com and wikipedia among others. In every source I found errors in their data and I believe this to be the most accurate comprehensive list for which comics the episodes of the series originated.

 

If any of you find any errors please let me know and I will update the list.

 

Hope you enjoy and thanks for looking!

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Without a doubt. Great work.

 

Great show too. The first one I can really remember watchign was the episode with Kyle McLaughlin handcuffed to the deadman in the desert.

 

Episode 3 "Carrion Death"

Shock Suspenstories #9

 

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Without a doubt. Great work.

 

Great show too. The first one I can really remember watchign was the episode with Kyle McLaughlin handcuffed to the deadman in the desert.

 

Episode 3 "Carrion Death"

Shock Suspenstories #9

That's one of my favorite EC stories. I'd love to see what the show did with it...

 

 

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As an added bonus to my list above I'm including the comics which lend their stories to the original Tales From the Crypt movie from 1972.

 

The movie was an anthology of sorts with several stories intertwined together forming the centered plot.

 

This is a link to the film on IMDB

 

Here are the comics that formed the movie:

The Haunt of Fear #12

The Haunt of Fear #22

Tales From the Crypt #23

Tales From the Crypt #46

The Vault of Horror #35

 

It should be noted that some of these stories were also re-done for the HBO series most notably the story out of VOH #35 which is the same Christmas story as the second episode from the first season of the series. The movie version of this story featured a much younger Joan Collins then what most of us remember from Dynasty.

 

Until next time boys and ghouls!

Enjoy

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Nice work - I also put a list together a couple of years ago but was too selfish to share lol. Carrion Death, Three's a Crowd and Yellow are three of my favourites for sure! Showdown was up there too.

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I've just recently finished watching the HBO Tales from the Crypt TV show and I really enjoyed doing so. I remember many of the episodes from when it first ran and several of them gave me the creeps just as much now as when they first aired. The show ran for 7 seasons on HBO before they finally pulled the plug.

 

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Hope you enjoy and thanks for looking!

 

Awesome work. You know, as much of an EC fanatic as I am, I haven't seen this show but for the first few episodes from the first season. You have inspired me to track down many more.

 

 

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The first two seasons can be bought as a combo pack from Target for about $15

 

the first season features a great documentary with Feldstien, Jerry Weist and others.

 

With those extras it's about time I bought the boxset.

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Anyone else into horror Anthologies like this?? Showtime has a good show called Masters of Horror. I have a cool collection of bootlegs and in it I have an unlreleased 13th episode that was a little too brutal to show on cable.

 

 

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If I remember correctly this book lists episodes and the comics they are based on. Couldn't get a copy of the cover so, heres a link to an Amazon listing.

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Crypt-Official-Including-Television/dp/0312170408/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

It does have the cross-references and is actually quite a good overview of the comics and the shows.
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If I remember correctly this book lists episodes and the comics they are based on. Couldn't get a copy of the cover so, heres a link to an Amazon listing.

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Crypt-Official-Including-Television/dp/0312170408/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

It does have the cross-references and is actually quite a good overview of the comics and the shows.

 

Good to know. Wish I had known before I put this list together and typed it all out! :tonofbricks:

 

Ah well, at least I got to share something

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If I remember correctly this book lists episodes and the comics they are based on. Couldn't get a copy of the cover so, heres a link to an Amazon listing.

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Crypt-Official-Including-Television/dp/0312170408/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

It does have the cross-references and is actually quite a good overview of the comics and the shows.

 

Good to know. Wish I had known before I put this list together and typed it all out! :tonofbricks:

 

Ah well, at least I got to share something

 

But your list has more cowbell. :headbang:

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