Tales from the Crypt #27

In "Well-Cooked Hams!", the Crypt-Keeper introduces a chilling tale of theatrical ambition and bloody retribution. When two American producers attempt to force a Parisian-style Grand Guignol spectacle onto Broadway, the theatre owner’s refusal leads to murder—but his death is only the beginning. As the stage lights dim and the curtain rises, the dead man returns with a vengeance, turning the very props of horror into deadly reality.

In "Madame Bluebeard," the Vault-Keeper recounts a chilling tale of a mother who trains her daughter to despise men, one murder at a time—six husbands, each made to look like an accident, preserved as macabre memorials. When her seventh victim survives the crash she orchestrated, she must finish the job herself, only to find that the graves she built hold a terrible secret. As the wind stirs through the cemetery, the dead begin to stir, and the final act of vengeance is not hers to control.

In the chilling pages of *Tales from the Crypt #27*, the Old Witch sets the stage for a grim tale of betrayal and retribution during the French Terror. A nobleman, desperate to save himself, betrays his peers—only to face a horrifying twist when a servant demonstrates how a headless chicken can still move, hinting at a gruesome truth. That night, the consequences of his treachery come to life in a way he never imagined.