Based on the legendary and gruesome EC Comics from publisher William Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, the super natural, gore and humor and always had a twist ending of sorts. Some of Hollywood's biggest names took part, either working in front or behind the camera. Hosting duties fell to everyone's favorite decaying corpse, the Crypt Keeper.

The episodes were based on one of five comic books by Gaines, and they were either The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, or, you guessed it - Tales from the Crypt.

The success of this series spawned a Saturday morning cartoon series, Tales From the Cryptkeeper, a short lived Saturday morning gameshow on CBS, Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House, and lots of merchandise. Two feature films, Demon Knight and Bordello of Blood, were also produced. In 2006, Ritual, a third film originally released overseas (without the Crypt Keeper wraparounds) in 2001 was finally released on DVD.

Two other movies based on the EC Comics Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror were released back in 1972 and 1973 respectively. But they are not connected to this series and will not be listed here!

Since it's cancellation, Tales from the Crypt has aired in syndication on HBO, Fox, the Sci-Fi Channel, and In Canada on CBC and the Space Channel. Most recently, the series has been airing on AMC, usually in late-night weekends.