Tales from the Crypt #2

In "Reflection of Death!", the Crypt-Keeper introduces a chilling tale of dread and deception as Al, a man haunted by a nightmarish vision, finds himself trapped in a series of terrifying encounters on a desolate road. After a crash leaves him stranded, he’s met with horror at every turn—first from a fleeing driver, then a hobo, a woman, and even his own friend Carl, who appears eyeless and broken. When Al finally confronts his own reflection in a mirror, he sees a face long decayed—only to wake, gasping, in a world that seems too real to be a dream. But as headlights cut through the dark once more, the nightmare isn’t over.

In "Seance!", the Crypt-Keeper introduces a chilling tale of deception and dread: Alan Bitsby, determined to expose a medium as a fraud, summons the spirit of his supposedly deceased wife—only to find her spirit manifesting in the séance room. But when he returns home, the truth is far more sinister than he could have imagined, and the line between the living and the dead begins to blur.

In "Bats in My Belfry!", a desperate actor seeking to restore his hearing agrees to an experimental procedure recommended by a mysterious figure—only to awaken with the piercing senses of a bat, and a growing unease as his body begins to change. As the line between man and beast blurs, he finds himself drawn into a web of obsession, betrayal, and a horror that may have been feeding on him all along. The Crypt-Keeper introduces this chilling tale of transformation and dread.

In "The Living Death!", a chilling tale from Tales from the Crypt #2 (1979), two doctors—Arnold Manning and Lester Jerome—find their rivalry tested when both fall for the same woman, Laurie. When her heart tumor proves fatal, Manning performs the surgery that ends her life, only to later face his own death from a brain tumor. Saved by Jerome’s psychosomatic methods, Manning is kept from decaying through a post-hypnotic suggestion—until the word "Laurie" awakens his cursed state, unleashing a horrifying transformation.

Duncan Reynolds, a man drawn to horror tales, finds himself haunted not by fiction but by a hunger he can’t explain—first lured by a restaurant serving grotesque meals, then driven to dig up a corpse in a cemetery. When he wakes with the remains in his arms and hears footsteps approaching, he flees, only to return home convinced it was all a nightmare. But when hunger strikes again, he opens his refrigerator—only to face the chilling truth.

In "Scared to Death!", the Crypt-Keeper spins a tale of greed and dread as Frank, desperate for his late uncle Alex’s fortune, marries Cora Weatherby Kearns—only to grow impatient and enlist her in a deadly plot to hasten Alex’s demise. But when guilt turns Cora into a shadow of herself and Frank grows bored of her sorrow, he schemes to eliminate her too—only to find that Alex, even in death, has a few tricks left up his sleeve.

In "Judy, You're not Yourself Today!", a chilling tale from Tales from the Crypt #2 (1979), the Vault-Keeper introduces a macabre twist on identity and deception. When an old crone casts a spell to swap bodies with Judy Abelson, her husband Donald must outwit the witch by convincing her she’s trapped in a dying frame—leading to a desperate, deadly game of survival beneath the house.

In "The Works... in Wax!", the eerie host The Old Witch introduces a chilling tale of a wax museum where the figures seem to whisper secrets. Henri, the museum’s owner, is obsessed with his macabre displays—until his wife Marie begins to hear their torment and alters them, sparking a deadly rift. When Henri’s rage turns violent, the very statues he created exact a horrifying, eternal vengeance.

In "Drawn and Quartered!", a disgraced artist named Max Moor, haunted by betrayal in the art world, turns to Haitian voodoo to reclaim his power—only to discover that his own portrait has become a cursed vessel. With each stroke of his brush, he can inflict pain on those who wronged him, but now he must outwit fate itself to avoid becoming the next victim of his own dark art.

In "The Borrowed Body!", the Vault-Keeper spins a chilling tale of betrayal and supernatural reversal: a woman and her lover conspire to kill her husband, only for fate to twist their plans in gruesome fashion. When the lover dies in the hospital, his body becomes the unlikely vessel for the husband’s vengeful soul—now reborn in a form both familiar and terrifying.

In "Indian Burial Mound," the Crypt-Keeper introduces a chilling tale of hubris and ancient retribution: Roy Madison, eager to build a flight school, dismisses Hiram Becker’s warnings about an Indian burial mound on his new farm. As he bulldozes the sacred site, unearthing skulls and triggering a sudden storm, eerie drums echo through the night—only to end in a scream and a gruesome discovery the next morning.

In "Political Pull!", the Old Witch spins a chilling tale of ambition and retribution, where a corrupt mayor’s political rival orchestrates a deadly scheme to seize power—only to find that the past has a way of dragging the guilty down. When a forged suicide note vanishes, then resurfaces at the worst possible moment, the victor’s triumph turns to terror as the sea claims what the ballot never could.

In "Well-Cooked Hams!", two ruthless American movie producers scheme to take over a Parisian theater with their blood-soaked Grand Guignol vision, only to awaken a vengeful spirit when their victim, the theater owner M'sieu Matier, rises from the dead. With the stage set for a gruesome performance, the real horrors begin when the props turn deadly and the past comes back to haunt the present.

In "Madame Bluebeard," the Vault-Keeper recounts a chilling tale of a woman who, driven by a mother’s twisted legacy, has spent six years eliminating husbands one by one—each death carefully staged as an accident. When her seventh victim survives the crash she orchestrated, she must finish the job herself, unaware that her collection of corpses is about to come alive. The story lingers in the shadow of the grave, where silence gives way to whispers and the earth itself begins to remember.

In a chilling tale from the depths of Tales from the Crypt #2, the Old Witch introduces a grim parable set during the French Terror, where betrayal and retribution take on a horrifyingly literal form. A nobleman’s treachery is met with a gruesome lesson when a servant demonstrates how a headless chicken can still move—and then shows him the terrifying truth of what happens when vengeance is severed from the body.

Two medical students, Mel and Sid, desperate to earn their anatomy credit, strike a grim bargain with a grave digger to steal a corpse from a freshly dug grave—unaware that the man inside is not truly dead, but a pawn in a deadly insurance scam orchestrated by his so-called friend. As shadows lengthen and secrets dig deep, the line between life and death blurs in a tale where the price of a degree may be paid in more than just effort.

In "Ants in Her Trance!", the Vault-Keeper recounts a chilling tale of obsession and betrayal: a hypnotist, driven by jealousy, manipulates his wife into a trance with a fatal command—only to later use the same power to silence her permanently. When his new lover succumbs to guilt at the grave, he triggers a horrifying reversal with the old phrase, "snap out of it," unleashing a vengeance far deadlier than death itself.

In "A-Corny Story," the Crypt-Keeper introduces a chilling tale of vengeance and twisted fate: an elderly man, wronged by age discrimination, journeys to Haiti seeking retribution through voodoo magic. He commissions a sorcerer to grow a tree that will reverse time—mirroring his boss’s life in reverse, down to the very roots of existence.