Tales from the Crypt #2

In "¡Reflejo mortal!", Al wakes after a car crash to find himself stranded on a desolate road, his clothes torn and his body reeking of decay. As he seeks help from strangers, each reaction to his appearance is one of terror—until he reaches a home he once knew, only to confront a vision of his friend Carl, blind and hollow-eyed. When Al finally sees himself in a mirror, his reflection is rotting, decomposed—then he wakes, convinced it was just a nightmare. But as headlights cut through the dark and the crash echoes again, the line between dream and dread blurs.

In "¡El último respeto!", a grieving man haunted by love and loss makes a desperate, chilling promise to the woman he secretly married—only to find himself trapped in her mausoleum, surviving on rainwater and the remnants of her preserved body, as the weight of his actions and the stench of decay close in.

In "¡Sesión de espiritismo!", Alan Bitsby challenges a medium to summon the spirit of his late wife, determined to expose him as a fraud. The séance proceeds with eerie intensity, and the medium, unaware that Bitsby’s wife is still alive, manages to summon her spirit—leaving Bitsby stunned and furious. When he returns home, the chilling truth begins to unravel.

In "¡Muerte vudú!", two men who witnessed a forbidden voodoo ritual in Haiti are haunted by a chilling return from the dead. After Jay vanishes and later reappears, Bill begins to suspect something is terribly wrong—especially when a mysterious package arrives at his home containing a voodoo doll that comes to life. As the doll attacks, Bill fights back, only to uncover a horrifying truth: the doll is tied to Jay, and the heart it holds is not just human, but Jay’s own. The line between past sins and present terror blurs in this tense, atmospheric tale of vengeance and the price of survival.

In "¡Oído de murciélago!", a struggling actor desperate to regain his hearing seeks out a mysterious figure recommended by a friend. After agreeing to an experimental procedure involving the sensory transplant of a bat, he awakens with razor-sharp hearing—only to slowly begin transforming in ways he never expected. As his new abilities grow more unsettling, he starts to question whether the price of hearing again might be far greater than he ever imagined.

In "¡La muerte viviente!", two doctors find their lives entangled by love and obsession when one’s patient dies during surgery—only for fate to twist again when the same man is brought back from the dead under a chilling condition. Years later, a single word, whispered in the right moment, holds the power to unleash a horrifying transformation, turning a man who should be gone into something far worse than death.

In "¡Tentempié de medianoche!", a restless reader named Duncan Reynolds finds himself drawn to a strange restaurant serving grotesque food, only to wander into a cemetery where hunger drives him to dig up a corpse. After passing out, he wakes to find himself with the half-eaten body, fleeing as footsteps approach—only to return home, convinced it was all a dream. But when hunger strikes again, he opens his refrigerator, and the nightmare begins anew.

In "¡Susto de muerte!", a man marries a woman solely to inherit her uncle's fortune, but growing impatient, he drags her into a plot to murder the uncle. As guilt shadows her and his patience wears thin, he devises a new plan to eliminate her—only for Uncle Alex to have a surprise of his own.

¡Judy, estás muy cambiada! unfolds with a chilling twist when an old crone casts a spell that swaps her body with that of a young woman, plunging her into a life far removed from her own. As the husband of the woman she now inhabits plays a dangerous game of deception, the line between identity and possession blurs—until the truth becomes a weapon.

In the eerie heart of a wax museum, Henri and Marie run a macabre show where the figures seem to whisper secrets. When Marie claims the statues are suffering and begins altering them to reflect peace instead of pain, Henri’s fury ignites—until his rage becomes his undoing. As the museum’s silent inhabitants finally take their revenge, a chilling transformation awaits the man who dared to silence their suffering.

In "¡Dibujado y descuartizado!", a Haitian artist, wronged by the art world, turns to voodoo practitioners seeking retribution. They grant him a dark gift: his paintings can become living talismans, mirroring harm done to their subjects. Now, with his own likeness trapped in a brushstroke, he must navigate a deadly game of vengeance—knowing that one misstep could cost him everything.

In "¡El cuerpo prestado!", a woman and her lover conspire to kill her husband, but their plan unravels when the husband escapes and the lover is struck by a car. As the lover lies dying in the hospital, the husband returns home, having seen through the betrayal. When the wife tries to finish him off with a poker, her lover’s soul suddenly transfers into the husband’s body—leaving the husband’s original form lifeless, and the lover’s body now inhabited by the husband’s spirit. The husband, now in his lover’s body, walks out of the hospital with a new purpose.

In "La tumba india," Roy Madison dismisses warnings from Hiram Becker about an Indian burial mound on the farm he’s purchased, determined to clear the land for a flight school. When he bulldozes into the mound, unearthing skulls and triggering a sudden storm, strange drums echo through the night—followed by a scream from Roy’s door. The next morning, Hiram discovers Roy’s body, scalped and still clutching the bulldozer’s keys.

In "¡Naufragio político!", a political rival’s scheme to frame the sitting mayor for corruption backfires in the most haunting way when a suicide note meant to destroy the mayor’s legacy vanishes—only to resurface after the man’s death, igniting a town’s fury. As the new mayor celebrates his victory with a sea voyage, a sudden storm reveals the true cost of his ascent: the corpse of the poisoned mayor, dragged up from the depths by a hand that refuses to let go.

In "¡Al rojo vivo!", two American producers desperate to import Parisian Grand Guignol horror to Broadway resort to murder when their pitch is rejected—only to find their gruesome ambitions come back to life in the most literal sense. After stealing a dead theater owner’s secrets, they stage a bloody spectacle that turns deadly when the man’s vengeful return turns stagecraft into slaughter.

In "Madame Barbazul," a mother’s twisted devotion to her late mother’s legacy drives her to meticulously murder one husband a year, disguising each death as an accident to honor her mother’s memory. When her seventh victim survives the crash she orchestrates, she’s forced to finish the job herself—only to discover her perfect record of silence may not be as final as she believed. The cemetery, where her victims lie buried, holds a secret that stirs beneath the soil when she’s alone.

In the brutal shadow of the French Revolution, a nobleman’s betrayal of his peers earns him a fleeting reprieve—until a servant in the market demonstrates how a chicken can still move after its head is severed, whispering a chilling suggestion. Laughing it off as a peasant’s idle threat, he soon learns too late that the dead do not forget, and the severed head of his former master walks with vengeance in the dark.

In "¡Oferta mortal!", two desperate medical students turn to grave robbing to secure the anatomy credit they need to graduate, only to stumble upon a corpse that’s far from dead—its apparent stillness the result of a deadly scam. The man, misled by a so-called friend into faking his death for a $40,000 insurance payout, now finds himself at the mercy of those who don’t know he’s still breathing.

In "¡Un largo trance!", a man’s dark obsession with hypnosis spirals into a chilling act of betrayal when he commands his wife to stop her heart—only to later conspire with a new lover to kill her permanently using the phrase "wake up." A year after her burial, he brings his lover to the grave for a performance of grief, but when guilt overwhelms her, he snaps her out of her trance with the old command. As they flee the cemetery, the earth splits open and the corpse of his wife rises, reclaiming both with a final, deadly whisper.

In "Una historia sentimental," an elderly man returns to Haiti after being fired for his age, seeking retribution through a voodoo practitioner’s dark magic. He requests a tree that grows in reverse, a curse meant to mirror his boss’s fate—unraveling time itself. As the tree shrivels to an acorn, the man watches from afar, knowing his former employer will soon be undone by the same relentless passage of time.