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Season 1

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Tales from the Crypt

    • March 9, 1972
    • HBO

    Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 The Vault of Horror

    • March 31, 1973
    • HBO

    An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building.

  • S01E01 The Man Who Was Death

    • June 10, 1989
    • HBO

    Niles Talbot moved from the country to the big city to get a job as an electrician but ended up as an executioner. His trouble begins when he's suddenly unemployed and decides to take the law into his own hands.

  • S01E02 And All Through the House

    • June 10, 1989
    • HBO

    On Christmas Eve a woman slaughters her husband and learns that she's on Santa's naughty list when an escaped maniac dressed as Santa Claus shows up at her doorstep with a special present for her.

  • S01E03 Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone

    • June 10, 1989
    • HBO

    A bum named Ulric is given the chance of a lifetime when a scientist puts the gland of a cat inside his body. Soon Ulric becomes the main attraction at a sideshow.

  • S01E04 Only Sin Deep

    • June 14, 1989
    • HBO

    A call girl goes to a pawnshop to rob him of his jewelry. Instead the owner offers her 10,000 dollars for her beauty. She sells her beauty and lands a new job but discovers she is aging very fast.

  • S01E05 Lover Come Hack to Me

    • June 21, 1989
    • HBO

    Charles marries Peggy but only for her money planning to kill her and make it look like an accident. One night things change when her dead mother pays a visit and Peggy shows Charles her own family tradition.

  • S01E06 Collection Completed

    • June 28, 1989
    • HBO

    After 47 year of tool sales, Jonas has finally found some time to relax and take a break. Or so he thinks. After he returns from his work, he finds out that his wife has been taking in stray animals. He decides to take up a new hobby ... taxidermy.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Dead Right

    • April 21, 1990
    • HBO

    A gold digging waitress goes to a fortune teller who predicts that by the end of the day her boss will fire her and she will land a new job. When the prediction becomes reality, she goes back for more. The fortune teller predicts that she will marry a man who will inherit a fortune and then die.

  • S02E02 The Switch

    • April 21, 1990
    • HBO

    An elderly millionaire asks a plastic surgeon to give him the body of a younger man to win the girl of his dreams.

  • S02E03 Cutting Cards

    • April 21, 1990
    • HBO

    Two rival long time gamblers meet up in a small town to have one last duel.

  • S02E04 'Til Death

    • April 24, 1990
    • HBO

    Logan is an unscrupulous gold digger who would do anything to catch the right woman with lots of money, including dabble into voodoo. When he meets Margaret, a sexy and rich widow on vacation, he immediately asks his partner, a voodoo priestess to conjure up a love potion for him which she takes unknowingly, she falls in love with him. How long will she love him for is the question.

  • S02E05 Three's a Crowd

    • May 1, 1990
    • HBO

    For their tenth anniversary a couple heads down to a cabin owned by their friend. When she and her friend start sneaking around the husband gets jealous and assumes that they are having an affair.

  • S02E06 The Thing from the Grave

    • May 8, 1990
    • HBO

    Stacy is a really sexy model with a very abusive agent/boyfriend named Mitch. When her photographer friend Cates offers her refuge in his home from his terror, they ultimately fall in love and gives her a special necklace as symbol of love and also promises her that he'd protect her no matter what. When Mitch learns of this, he goes into a deadly rage and question is, will Cates' promise be kept?

  • S02E07 The Sacrifice

    • May 15, 1990
    • HBO

    Hotshot insurance salesman James becomes involved with the beautiful and seductive Gloria Fleming, who's the wife of crude tycoon Sebastian Fleming. James and Gloria decide to bump Sebastian off for his considerable money. They succeed with killing Sebastian, but things go awry when the meddlesome Jerry enters the picture claiming he has photographic evidence of the murder.

  • S02E08 For Cryin' Out Loud

    • May 22, 1990
    • HBO

    A greedy rock promoter tries to steal the money raised at a benefit concert when his conscience intervenes.

  • S02E09 Four-Sided Triangle

    • May 29, 1990
    • HBO

    Farmer George is attracted to Mary Jo, the nubile young woman who helps out with the chores. The problem is... she's in love with a scarecrow.

  • S02E10 The Ventriloquist's Dummy

    • June 5, 1990
    • HBO

    A ventriloquist seeks out his old hero, Ingels, who he always admired. He soon meets up with his ventriloquist dummy Morty and discovers a shocking secret.

  • S02E11 Judy, You're Not Yourself Today

    • June 12, 1990
    • HBO

    Donald and Judy are a couple who find themselves in a game of witchcraft. When a mysterious woman convinces Judy to try on a magical necklace, the old woman switches their souls. Soon Donald realizes that something is wrong. He tricks the witch into thinking that Judy has cancer and they switch back. Then Donald kills the witch and buries her. Years later, she comes back and this time she's got a special surprise for him.

  • S02E12 Fitting Punishment

    • June 19, 1990
    • HBO

    Mean and stingy cheapskate funeral home director Ezra Thornberry treats his deceased clients with an appalling lack of respect. Following the death of his mother, Ezra's naive teenage nephew Bobby is forced to live with the nasty old coot. Complications arise when Bobby disapproves of Ezra's unscrupulous business practices.

  • S02E13 Korman's Kalamity

    • June 26, 1990
    • HBO

    Jim Korman is a cartoonist for Tales From The Crypt. He has talent for creating horrible creatures - they are all inspired by his harassing wife. Little does he know that his creations are coming to life and creating havoc. A female detective pursues the creator and suddenly falls for him. Korman decides to finally take his wife out of the picture.

  • S02E14 Lower Berth

    • July 3, 1990
    • HBO

    Enouch is a two-faced man at a sideshow carnival. One day a new attraction arrives - a 4 century old mummy. When the owner learns that the mummy is not only ripped off but cursed, he swipes the jewels off the mummy but soon he regrets it. This episode also features the birth of The Cryptkeeper.

  • S02E15 Mute Witness to Murder

    • July 10, 1990
    • HBO

    A woman witnesses a man slaughter his wife. The man lives across the street from her. When her husband calls their doctor, she's even more horrorfied to learn that the doctor is also the killer.

  • S02E16 Television Terror

    • July 17, 1990
    • HBO

    Horton Rivers is an arrogant television tabloid host. He is trying to get big ratings and decides to take his crew through a haunted house. The house is rumored to be haunted by an old woman who killed a number of men. Soon strange things start happening. Someone or something is stalking Horton and his camera crew. The ratings could take him to the top or to the bottom.

  • S02E17 My Brother's Keeper

    • July 24, 1990
    • HBO

    The reckless Eddie and the correct Frank are Siamese brothers connected by their waists. Eddie wants to convince Frank to be submitted to a surgery with 50% of chances of success, but Frank is afraid. When Frank meets Marie in a bar, he falls in love for her and decides to risk. But a secret is disclosed with fatal consequences, affecting the relationship of the brothers.

  • S02E18 The Secret

    • July 31, 1990
    • HBO

    Orphan boy Theodore is adopted by the Colbys, who are an eccentric rich couple with a very dark secret.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Loved to Death

    • June 15, 1991
    • HBO

    A classic "boy wants girl, girl is unresponsive to his attentions" storyline gets the Tales from the Crypt treatment, as a young man gets a Love Potion by his mysterious landlord, in an attempt to win over the girl of his dreams. But things soon get out of hand...

  • S03E02 Carrion Death

    • June 15, 1991
    • HBO

    A sadistic serial killer has unforeseen complications when pursued by a determined motorcycle cop in a barren desert.

  • S03E03 The Trap

    • June 15, 1991
    • HBO

    An abrasive husband comes home to tell his wife that he has lost his job again. She reminds him that they are behind on their bills and suggests she get a job. He refuses. Instead, he comes up with a scheme to make a lot of money quick. Calling his coroner brother over, he tells them his plan to fake his own death and collect his half a million dollar life insurance policy.

  • S03E04 Abra Cadaver

    • June 19, 1991
    • HBO

    A former potential surgeon sets out to wreak revenge on the brother who's cruel practical joke prevented him from realizing his dream.

  • S03E05 Top Billing

    • June 26, 1991
    • HBO

    An unattractive and unlucky actor can't get a role because of his looks. His agent and girlfriend leave him. But he doesn't intend to give up - he wants the role of Hamlet.

  • S03E06 Dead Wait

    • July 3, 1991
    • HBO

    Red is a low life crook who is looking for a black pearl. He finds that it's on a island belonging to an ailing millionaire. He plans with the millionaire's mistress to steal the pearl but she turns on him. Fortunately a voodoo priestess comes to the rescue but she has something special for him that he'll never forget.

  • S03E07 The Reluctant Vampire

    • July 10, 1991
    • HBO

    A good-natured vampire takes a more novel approach to satisfying his blood lust with his chosen undercover employment.

  • S03E08 Easel Kill Ya

    • July 17, 1991
    • HBO

    Painter Jack Craig gains himself a wealthy patron when he sells a morbid painting. He soon finds that in order to please his patron, he must continue to paint pictures of death - and this leads him down a murderous path.

  • S03E09 Undertaking Palor

    • July 24, 1991
    • HBO

    Four boys who have a talent for video taping uncover some weird things at the undertaker's. Soon revenge comes when one the boy's father becomes a victim. They begin video taping the undertaker's evil deeds which he soon discovers in horror.

  • S03E10 Mournin' Mess

    • July 31, 1991
    • HBO

    A regretful reporter is investigating some murders of homeless people. He meets up with a man who is the prime suspect in the murders but when he fails to deliver a story his boss fires him. He then discovers that the new cemetery by a group called Ghouls is the cause for all the deaths in the neighborhood and guess who's the next victim.

  • S03E11 Split Second

    • August 7, 1991
    • HBO

    Dixon is a lumberjack who marries a sexy barmaid named Liz Kelly. Soon after, he turns from sweet Dr. Jekyll into cruel Mr. Hyde. He is jealous of her when the boys find her attractive. One day a new lumberjack comes to town and Liz finds Ted attractive. When he catches them in the bed together, Dixon goes in a jealous rage and whacks him blinding him. The boys help him seek revenge on Dixon and Liz.

  • S03E12 Deadline

    • August 14, 1991
    • HBO

    Charles McKenzie is a drunk out of work reporter who would do anything for a story. He meets Vicki in a bar who makes him feel like he can turn his life around. He quits drinking and can get his old job back as long as he can stay on the wagon and prove he can still bring in a good murder story. While reading a newspaper in Niko's Grill, he hears the owner kill his wife in the back. This is just the story he needs...

  • S03E13 Spoiled

    • August 21, 1991
    • HBO

    Janet is a soap opera loving woman. She likes to watch soaps everyday. She even imitates them. One day she misses the end of her favorite soap opera when the TV goes on the fritz. She decides to get cable soon. Janet finds her self falling for the attractive cable installer. When her Surgeon husband discovers what's going on, he decides to make them part of his experiment.

  • S03E14 Yellow

    • August 28, 1991
    • HBO

    The year is 1918. During World War I, somewhere in France, it's the 49th day of continuous battle on the front lines. Lieutenant Martin Kalthrob doesn't want to be in the army anymore and asks his father, General Kalthrob, for a discharge. His father refuses but says he will transfer him to the rear if he leads a patrol to the German lines and fix the broken communication line. When he proves himself to be a coward, his father orders a court martial with penalty of death by firing squad.

Season 4

  • S04E01 None But the Lonely Heart

    • June 27, 1992
    • HBO

    A sneaky man is obsessed with wedding rich older women then killing them. His business partner fears that he'll be caught soon. He finds himself in hot water when he starts getting threatening notes. He kills off those he suspects and soon he realizes the meaning of the saying revenge is sweet.

  • S04E02 This'll Kill Ya

    • June 27, 1992
    • HBO

    Sophie and Pack are workers at a medicine company. They are furious when their boss tells the papers that they are ready to test their new drug on humans. One day, while he is taking his shots they accidently inject him with the serum. George has only a few hours to live. He starts to have delusions and learns he's been set up and kills Pack. Sophie bursts in and tells him that the whole thing was just a joke.

  • S04E03 On a Deadman's Chest

    • June 27, 1992
    • HBO

    A rocker fights with his manager. His groupie girlfriend shows him a special tattoo and convinces him to get one from where she got it. The tattoo has a picture of a dragon but a cartoon face that looks like Scarlett. He tries to remove the tattoo but no matter how hard he tries it keeps coming back. Eventually it drives him to murder Scarlett. The tattoo comes back to haunt him despite his guilt.

  • S04E04 Seance

    • July 4, 1992
    • HBO

    Con artists posing as mediums decide to use a man named Chalmers as their next victim. The woman hits on Chalmers and her male partner takes pictures of them in bed. One day Chalmers is killed in an accident. The con artists discover something else - Chalmers' wife is blind. They decide to pull a fake seance on his wife. The plan works but not in the way they expect.

  • S04E05 Beauty Rest

    • July 11, 1992
    • HBO

    An obsessed wannabe model grows bloody red with envy when her roommate lands a part she thought she was going to get. She forces her roommate to overdose and steps in to take her place. She becomes the next victim of another jealous model and kills her rival. Now there's no one standing in her way and she is crowned, but she soon discovers something shocking about the talent show.

  • S04E06 What's Cookin'

    • July 22, 1992
    • HBO

    Fred and Erma are workers at a squid cafe who find themselves in trouble because their business is failing and their landlord will kick them out. That is until one of the employees encourages them to serve meat. Suddenly business is getting better. Gaston decides to double cross Fred and Erma but he ends getting invited for dinner ... but not in the way he expects. (with optional commentary by John Kassir in character as the Cryptkeeper, the episode's writer Alan Katz, and Tales From the Crypt chronicler Digby Diehl).

  • S04E07 The New Arrival

    • July 25, 1992
    • HBO

    An arrogant radio child psychologist is obsessed with proving to his manager that he is the best. He gets a new patient, a woman and her daughter. When he goes to her room, he assumes that the daughter is the woman's imaginary friend. He learns that her daughter died years ago but her mother's love keeps her alive.

  • S04E08 Showdown

    • August 1, 1992
    • HBO

    A gunman being is chased down by another quickdrawing gunslinger in an old abandoned western town. The gunman wins the duel but he soon learns a new meaning to the phrase ""ghost town"" as the spirits of all his victims come back to haunt him.

  • S04E09 King of the Road

    • August 8, 1992
    • HBO

    A courageous drag racer challenges a cop who used to be a racer. When the cop refuses, the racer decides to make him change his mind and kidnaps his teenage daughter. Iceman proves that he hasn't lost his talent by tricking the racer into changing the course sending him to his doom.

  • S04E10 Maniac at Large

    • August 19, 1992
    • HBO

    A shy library clerk is obsessed with a serial killer fearing that she will be his next victim. She thinks that her boss, the security guard and a patron are they killer. One night, while she is working late, it turns out that she is really the killer and her victims were ones she thought were after her.

  • S04E11 Split Personality

    • August 26, 1992
    • HBO

    Stetson is a con man who likes to date twins. He finds himself in the arms of twin sisters and creates a twin of his own. He weds both of them and decides to knock them off. Little does he know these twins share alike.

  • S04E12 Strung Along

    • September 2, 1992
    • HBO

    An aging puppeteer gets a new assistant. When he learns that his wife has a boyfriend, the assistant promises he'll do something about it. The puppeteer spends most of his time with is favorite puppet Koko. When he discovers that his assistant is his wife's lover, the two make him think that Koko has gone on a murderous rampage. Little do they know that Pinocchio isn't the only one with-out strings.

  • S04E13 Werewolf Concerto

    • September 9, 1992
    • HBO

    A man is killed outside the woods of a hotel. His death is suspected to be the work of a werewolf. The manager says that there is a werewolf hunter who will deal with the problem. Among the guests is a smooth talking man and an attractive female guest. It turns out that Lokai is the werewolf but much to his surprise he discovers that Janice is also a creature of darkness.

  • S04E14 Curiosity Killed

    • September 16, 1992
    • HBO

    A man asks his friend to keep a youth potion away from his wife. When she suspects that they are trying to kill her, she kills them first and drinks the potion which she had switched. But she soon regrets it.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Death of Some Salesmen

    • October 2, 1993
    • HBO

    A sneaky con man has a talent for killing people after he sells them phony tombstones. He soon learns that some for his new victims have a fortune buried in their cellar. He marries their daughter and kills the parents but when he goes down in the basement he gets a big surprise.

  • S05E02 As Ye Sow

    • October 2, 1993
    • HBO

    A husband hires a detective to spy on his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with a priest. When he learns that he's been conned, he decides to kill him himself. That day he learns that there was nothing going on between them and he is relieved. But he is mistaken for his wife's boyfriend and killed by the detective he hired.

  • S05E03 Forever Ambergris

    • October 2, 1993
    • HBO

    Dalton is a seasoned combat photographer who finds himself falling for a beautiful women who just happens to be the wife of his friend. One day Ike sends Dalton into a disease warfare area. Dalton returns, but not the way he used to be. He soon writes a letter about how he was set up and his wife and friend also contract the same disease.

  • S05E04 Food for Thought

    • October 6, 1993
    • HBO

    Zambini is a circus mind-controlling psychic who controls his beautiful helper with his telepathic powers. One day he learns that she has a crush on the fire eater. Zambini goes into a terrible rage and kills him. Connie flees in terror never to return. Zambini uses his powers to call her back but it contacts the pet gorilla instead.

  • S05E05 People Who Live in Brass Hearses

    • October 13, 1993
    • HBO

    Billy is a smalltime criminal who is bloody red for vengeance. Years ago, his boss at an icecream warehouse double crossed him by sending him to prison. Now he plans to frame his boss with the help of his disabled brother.

  • S05E06 Two for the Show

    • October 20, 1993
    • HBO

    A man slaughters his wife who he believes is having an affair. He drags her body and puts it in the bathtub. The police arrive and he refuses to let them near the bathtub. He chops up the corpse and hops a train with a trunk containing his wife's corpse. The detective follows him. The man switches trunks but when he opens the other one he gets a big surprise.

  • S05E07 House of Horror

    • October 27, 1993
    • HBO

    Les Whilton is the president of a college fraternity. He decides to scare three pledges by daring them to spend a night in a haunted house. He and some of his friends have set up the place to look like it's haunted. Along for the ride is a group of sorority sisters. When everyone else turns up missing, everyone turns to Whilton. Whilton goes into the house alone and he gets a big surprise.

  • S05E08 Well Cooked Hams

    • November 3, 1993
    • HBO

    A frustrated magician comes across a true genius. He decides to kill him and steal his magic, but he finds himself in big trouble and it's going to be the last magic trick he will ever perform.

  • S05E09 Creep Course

    • November 10, 1993
    • HBO

    Reggie is a college jock who is trying to pass a history test. He asks the class bookworm Stella Bishop to help tutor him. She goes to Finely's house to to get the answer sheet, but when she gets there, Finely and Reggie lock her in a mummy's tomb. Finely double crosses Reggie by poisoning him. Finely goes back to check his work, and gets a big surprise. Stella is not dead. She has been charming the mummy by impersonating his dead girlfriend making the mummy jealous and Reggie and Finely really take the wraps.

  • S05E10 Came the Dawn

    • November 17, 1993
    • HBO

    In this version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, a young woman who is also a thief is picked up by a man driving by. He takes her up to his place. There she hears a message from his wife, but also learns that there is a killer nearby. When she goes to his room she gets a big surprise.

  • S05E11 Oil's Well That Ends Well

    • November 24, 1993
    • HBO

    A con artist and his girlfriend plan their next caper by tricking some southern boys into thinking there is oil underneath a cemetery. Their plans work. She makes them think she has gotten jealous and killed her boyfriend, but when she goes to dig him up, she gets a big surprise. He and the boys have been partners all along. The last laugh is on her when it turns out that there really is oil and she blows them all to kingdom come.

  • S05E12 Half-Way Horrible

    • December 1, 1993
    • HBO

    Roger Lassen is a manufacturer who kills his friend by burying him alive in the South American jungle to finish the development of a chemical preservative. He's haunted by the memories of the incident. The earnings will make him rich but he can't get it past the FDA regulations. Soon his past returns and he starts seeing his dead friend everywhere he looks. A voodoo priestess offers to help exorcise his dark side. The spell works but at the most horrible cost.

  • S05E13 Till Death Do We Part

    • December 8, 1993
    • HBO

    A male escort is engaged to an aging woman. One day she discovers him flirting with a younger woman. She forces him to kill her in front of her. Instead he kills off her bodyguards, but he is even more surprised when the young lady turns against him. It turns out he's been fantasizing the whole thing and bumps her off himself.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

    • October 31, 1994
    • HBO

    An ambulance-chasing lawyer finds herself in a nightmare court when she is hauled in for having too many digits on her license plate. She finds her self going through the court several times and they have a way of throwing the book at her. Little does she know, that her lawyer has been dismissed for being stuck in the court too long. He treats himself with the chair of doom but she must stay to take his place.

  • S06E02 Only Skin Deep

    • October 31, 1994
    • HBO

    At a costume party, a young man falls in love with a sexy woman. They have a great time. He promises to keep quiet but the next day he spills the beans. The woman tells him not to be around while she's awake. He finds out that she's wearing that same mask. He tries to remove it only to learn that it's her horrible face. She gives him the most shocking punishment.

  • S06E03 Whirlpool

    • October 31, 1994
    • HBO

    A comic artist for Tales From The Crypt finds herself trapped inside a repetitious nightmare world. Everyday she lives through the same horrible episodes. First her boss rejects her latest idea then fires her. She goes to her boss and shoots him only to be caught by the police and shot to death. In reality the whole thing turns out to be a comic and she really is his boss and he is her employee.

  • S06E04 Operation Friendship

    • November 9, 1994
    • HBO

    Nelson is a computer genius who is letting his boss take credit for his ideas. Meanwhile his childhood imaginary pal Eddie tries to get Nelson to stand up to his bullying coworker. That is, until Nelson falls in love with a beautiful next door neighbor. Eddie thinks that she will ruin their friendship, but Nelson tosses Eddies' good side out the window leaving Eddie to come back cold-hearted.

  • S06E05 Revenge is the Nuts

    • November 16, 1994
    • HBO

    A run-down shelter for the blind is owned by a cruel man. He abuses the patients there and won't give them respect. A new blind girl, Shelly, arrives the owner promises to lighten up if she agrees to sleep with him. Benny and the other patients give the owner from hell a taste of his own medicine.

  • S06E06 The Bribe

    • November 23, 1994
    • HBO

    Zoeller is a fire marshal who wants a strip club closed down. He wants to get revenge on it's sneaky owner and his pal for letting his offspring dance there. Zoeller bribes an arsonist to burn the place but after he does it, he discovers that she was also in there. Little does he know that his daughter wasn't in the club when the fire happened. She left early to get married with her boyfriend.

  • S06E07 The Pit

    • November 30, 1994
    • HBO

    Two men who are longtime rivals go head to head in a grudge match. But, the real fight isn't between them, it's between their feuding wives. When the two men realize they don't hate each other, they decide to put their wives in the ring. With the help of a Las Vegas showman, they set them up as they watch them in a boxing match on live television.

  • S06E08 The Assassin

    • December 7, 1994
    • HBO

    Janet is a suburban wife of an ex-CIA assassin. When a group of operatives invade her home, they seem to think her husband is up to his old tricks again. The leader tempts one of her men then kills him, then kills the other guy, then plans to do the same with Janet. But Janet has a nasty surprise for her that she will never forget.

  • S06E09 Staired in Horror

    • December 14, 1994
    • HBO

    Clyde is a fugitive who holes up in a house occupied by an elderly woman. One night he finds an attractive woman upstairs, but he discovers it's the same woman. She tells him that a long time ago her spouse caught her having an affair and put a curse on the house. She must stay up stairs if she wants to be young forever. The same thing will happen to the man if he comes upstairs. The cops arrive and he goes upstairs to change his image but he finds himself getting weak and the woman turns back into a helpless infant unable to do anything but crawl.

  • S06E10 In the Groove

    • December 21, 1994
    • HBO

    Gary Grover is a frustrated talk radio DJ. His boss, who is also his sister, hired a sexy looker with a talent for talking dirty. One day Gary goes ballistic and his boss fires him. Val suggests that he take matters into his own hands, but he's been set up.

  • S06E11 Surprise Party

    • December 28, 1994
    • HBO

    A young man kills his father to inherit an old burned down house. When he arrives, he gets a very unusual surprise. He discovers that there's a party there waiting for him and he is the guest of honor. When one the sexy dancer's boyfriends gets jealous, the man kills him and tries to burn the evidence. The guests stop him and he realizes it's the same place his father burned down years ago and history has a nasty way of repeating it self.

  • S06E12 Doctor of Horror

    • January 4, 1995
    • HBO

    Richard and Charlie are security guards working in a morgue. They are offered five hundred dollars by a doctor who is trying to capture the soul of each dying person before it goes to heaven. When their boss figures out what's happening Richard is forced to kill him but he kills Charlie too. The doctor succeeds in capturing Charlie's soul. Charlie comes back out for revenge.

  • S06E13 Comes the Dawn

    • January 11, 1995
    • HBO

    Two poachers are out hunting bear in Alaska. They seek the help of a woman who leads them into a dorm. The men decide that they don't need her anymore but the Colonel double crosses his partner. She's been leading them to a lair full of hibernating vampires. Luckily it's dawn but there's one problem. Alaska is locked in cold darkness.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Demon Knight

    • January 13, 1995
    • HBO

    Brayker is a man who carries the last of seven keys, special containers which held the blood of Christ and were scattered across the universe to prevent the forces of evil from taking over. If The Collector gets the last key, the universe will fall into Chaos, and he has been tracking Brayker all the way to a small inn in a nowhere town. And now the final battle for the universe begins

  • S06E14 99 & 44/100% Pure Horror

    • January 18, 1995
    • HBO

    Willa is a married artist who is pushed around by her ad campaign husband. When his company decides to drop her idea, Willa plans to come up with a new idea but nobody's interested. Willa wants revenge when a graffiti artist comes up with an idea and everyone is interested. Willa kills her husband and turns his body into soaps. She decides to shower with them but soon she regrets it.

  • S06E15 You, Murderer

    • January 25, 1995
    • HBO

    Lou Spinielli is an ex-criminal who wants to escape from his past. He hires Oscar, a plastic surgeon to sculpt his face in the form of Humphrey Bogart's. When his wife gets the pictures of his past in the mail, Oscar suggests that he kill Vivian. The plan backfires and when Lou returns home and he gets a surprise. Vivian and Oscar have been partners all along. They bump Lou off and take him far into the woods to bury him. Lou's mistress, Erika, shows up and the couple become some murder victims themselves.

Season 7

  • S07E01 Fatal Caper

    • April 19, 1996
    • HBO

    A dying elderly man decides to not leave his estate to his greedy sons. His lawyer convinces him to change his will so that unless they find their long lost brother Frank, the money goes to charity. Evelyn plots with her to double cross Justin but he get a big surprise. Their father is alive. His lawyer also has a surprise for him that he'll never forget.

  • S07E02 Last Respects

    • April 26, 1996
    • HBO

    Dorles, Marlys and Lavone are three sisters who think they have found a way out of their troubles. They discover a monkey's paw that grants them their wishes. Soon they learn the penalty of the wishes they make.

  • S07E03 A Slight Case of Murder

    • May 3, 1996
    • HBO

    Sharon is a mystery novelist who just can't stand her nosy neighbor. One day her envious ex shows up. She tries to throw him out but he makes the first move. Mrs Trask sends her son to dig her up. As her son plans to do away with Sharon's ex, she comes alive and everyone kills each other. The whole thing was plotted by Trask to get some research for her next book.

  • S07E04 Escape

    • May 17, 1996
    • HBO

    A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp. One of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp. Badly scarred, he promises to reveal the traitor's identity. When he recovers, the traitor kills the patient then stows away in the back of a truck but he finds himself ambushed.

  • S07E05 Horror in the Night

    • May 24, 1996
    • HBO

    Jewel thief Nick double-crosses his partner then holes up inside a hotel. But, he maybe going out of his mind when he starts to see visions of a mysterious woman. It turns out that she's his ex-girlfriend. Along with his presumed dead partner they give him a taste of his own medicine.

  • S07E06 Cold War

    • May 31, 1996
    • HBO

    Cammy is fed up with her boyfriend's robbery plans always backfiring. One day, she walks out on him and meets an attractive black man at a bar. Jimmy happens to be a vampire, but he discovers something else: Cammy and Ford are also among the living dead.

  • S07E07 The Kidnapper

    • June 7, 1996
    • HBO

    A pawnbroker falls in love with a pregnant girl. After the child is born, he gets jealous. He plans to kidnap the child, but after the abduction, his girlfriend becomes worse than with the child. He tries to buy the child back from the people he hired but it's no use. He tries to steal another woman's child only to learn that it was his ex-girlfriend's child.

  • S07E08 Report from the Grave

    • June 14, 1996
    • HBO

    Elliot thinks he has the talent for collecting thoughts from the dead. He decides to create a killer with his girlfriend but something goes terrible wrong. Elliot is now obsessed with resurrecting her which works but at the most horrible cost.

  • S07E09 Smoke Wrings

    • June 21, 1996
    • HBO

    An ad executive hires Barry and she's pleased to find out that she's got her opponent Frank running scared. Barry doesn't know anything about advertising until an ex-employee comes to help him with subliminal advertising. Jacqueline gives Barry Frank's position but Alistair has some nasty tricks up his sleeve.

  • S07E10 About Face

    • June 28, 1996
    • HBO

    Jonathan is a priest who discovers that he has two long lost daughters: beautiful Angelica and ugly Leah. Leah fears that because of her ugliness their father will leave them again. Jonathan plans to abandon them again but he is forced to kill Leah and gets a big surprise.

  • S07E11 Confession

    • July 5, 1996
    • HBO

    A terrible killer is the rampage slicing off every women's head in the city. A screenwriter finds himself as the prime suspect.

  • S07E12 Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow

    • July 12, 1996
    • HBO

    A safecracker hires a specialist to fix his hearing so he can return to his old days of safecracking for his boss. However, he soon discovers something shocking about the surgery.

  • S07E13 The Third Pig

    • July 19, 1996
    • HBO

    In this cartoon version of the Three Little Pigs story, Dudly, the smart pig, is framed for the murders of his brothers and sentenced to death. But, his brothers' spirits help him seek revenge on the wolf.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Ritual

    • September 18, 2002

    A discredited American doctor begins a job in Jamaica caring for a disturbed man who thinks he is becoming a zombie.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Bordello of Blood

    • August 16, 1996
    • HBO

    Private eye Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine (Erika Eleniak) to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire (Angie Everhart) and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current (Chris Sarandon).

  • SPECIAL 0x6 A Virtual Comic Book: The Man Who Was Death

    • HBO

  • SPECIAL 0x7 A Virtual Comic Book: Dead Right

    • HBO

  • SPECIAL 0x8 A Virtual Comic Book: The Trap

    • HBO

  • SPECIAL 0x9 A Virtual Comic Book: None but the Lonely Heart

    • HBO

  • SPECIAL 0x10 A Virtual Comic Book: Death of Some Salesmen

    • HBO
  • SPECIAL 0x11 A Virtual Comic Book: Whirlpool

    • HBO
  • SPECIAL 0x12 A Virtual Comic Book: Fatal Caper

    • HBO
  • SPECIAL 0x13 HBO Presentation & Tales from the Crypt Opening Credits

    • HBO

  • SPECIAL 0x14 From Comic Books to Television

    • HBO

    A documentary about bringing the infamous 1950s EC Comics to 1990s HBO television.

  • SPECIAL 0x15 Cryptkeeper's History of Season One

    • HBO

    A brief retrospective of Season One narrated by the Cryptkeeper.

  • SPECIAL 0x16 Season II Shockumentary

    • HBO

    A "behind the screams" look at the making of Tales from the Crypt Season Two.

  • SPECIAL 0x17 Fright and Sound: Bringing the Crypt Experience to Radio

    • HBO

    A look behind the scenes at "Tight Grip," an episode of Tales from the Crypt made for radio and starring Tim Curry.

  • SPECIAL 0x18 A Tall Tales Panel

    • HBO

    A gathering of Tales from the Crypt staff and admirers talk about the show.

  • SPECIAL 0x19 Tales from the Crypt Reunion: A Panel Discussion

    • HBO

    A San Diego Comic-Con panel discussion about Tales from the Crypt.

  • SPECIAL 0x20 Crypt Jam Music Video

    • HBO

    The Cryptkeeper raps.

  • SPECIAL 0x21 Stars of Season Four

    • HBO

    A montage hosted by the Cryptkeeper.

  • SPECIAL 0x22 Cryptkeeper Introduction

    • HBO

  • SPECIAL 0x23 Cryptkeeper Unveils His New Look

    • HBO

    The Cryptkeeper Unveils His New Look. He is upset on what his face looks like. He thinks he is to good looking to be on T.V.

  • SPECIAL 0x24 A Tall Tales Panel: A Dissected Look at Tales from the Crypt

    • HBO

    A Tall Tales Panel: A Dissected Look at Tales from the Crypt. Season 3

  • SPECIAL 0x25 Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television

    • January 1, 2005
    • HBO

    A Documentary that tells the story of EC Comics, the controversy that led to the end of mainstream horror comics, and the HBO anthology series "Tales from the Crypt".

  • SPECIAL 0x26 Island of Death (Radio Series)

    • January 1, 2000

    A pair of film fanatic buddies (Luke Perry, Ramon de O'Campo) crash land on an uncharted island where they're forced to play a variation of "The Most Dangerous Game" against a seductive vixen (Gina Gershon) for the amusement of an eccentric millionaire (Nick Wyman) who's presiding over the proceedings from his deathbed.

  • SPECIAL 0x27 A Little Stranger (Radio Series)

    • January 1, 2000

    While listening to election coverage, an aging United States senator (Martin Carey) recalls the evening in 1968 when he was forced to marry the parents of the presidential candidate, a pair of ghouls who left the reverend blind.

  • SPECIAL 0x28 This Trick'll Kill You (Radio Series)

    • January 1, 2000

    Following a botched convenience store robbery, a pair of thieves (Rebecca Nice, Todd Cummings) decide to lie low with a traveling circus. But things don't go quite as planned when a mysterious woman (Francesco Rizzo) offers to let them join her act.

  • SPECIAL 0x29 Tight Grip (Radio Series)

    • January 1, 2000

    A young girl named Kitty refuses to speak, except to her teddy bear and through her violin.

  • SPECIAL 0x30 Zombie! (Radio Series)

    • January 1, 2000

    Come to beautiful Haiti where, for $10,000 (U.S.), a man can flee the law, escape his own sorry past — and even wind up with a beautiful woman in tow! David Goodson, played in an intense performance by veteran character actor Oliver Platt (Deadline, Bicentennial Man, The Imposters, Working Girl), has paid the price and he's well on his way to his promised new life. But in voodou-rich Haiti, when a man buys happiness with other people's money, he sometimes awakens powerful enemies - and not just among the living!

  • SPECIAL 0x31 Fare Tonight, Followed By Increasing Clottiness (Radio Series)

    • January 1, 2000

    City-wide vampire activity is at record levels! Every cab driver in town is on the alert. Poor Bhaya—a recent immigrant to this fair land (and low man on the cabbie totem pole) -- draws the notorious Gravesmoor section for his nightshift. When he picks up an implacable vampire hunter for a fare, Bhaya finds himself in for a wild ride through a hellish night. It is on this evil night that Bhaya learns the real truth about vampires—that they are the lousiest tippers of all! But will Bhaya survive long enough to pass on this wisdom to his fellow hack drivers? The weather out there certainly doesn't look favorable for the living!

  • SPECIAL 0x32 Carrion Death (Radio Series)

    • January 1, 2000

    Former high school English teacher and current convict for armed robbery "Professor" Wall has a clear goal — never to return to the confines of the institutions (scholarly and otherwise) that have made his life a hell of banality and mediocrity. But sometimes a simple walk to a distinct destination isn't so uncomplicated after all — especially when the path leads through mirages, deadly illusions, and a merciless desert wasteland of greed and desperation.

  • SPECIAL 0x33 By the Fright of the Silvery Moon (Radio Series)

    • January 1, 2000

    When animals and residents of Las Luzes, New Mexico begin being mutilated by a mysterious beast, the town sheriff (John Ritter) is forced to investigate.