Tales from the Crypt #29

In a chilling tale from *Tales from the Crypt #29*, a frightened boy named Artie is locked in a closet by his cruel step-father, Samuel Bricker, only to find an unexpected companion in the dark: Hozier, a mysterious entity who claims to know how to teach the man a lesson. As the boy grapples with fear and the unsettling power of his new friend’s twisted ideas, he soon realizes that some punishments might be too terrible to control.

In "A Rottin' Trick!", the Vault-Keeper recounts a chilling tale of betrayal and twisted fate: a man who discards a woman only to find himself ensnared by her past when he seeks passage from the country with a boat pilot who once loved her. The pilot’s quiet offer to help leads him to a remote island, where the air itself feels heavy with secrets—and the dead may not stay buried.

In "Board to Death!", the Crypt-Keeper spins a chilling tale of terror and psychological unraveling, where a woman’s deepest fear—being buried alive—becomes a horrifying reality at the hands of her cruel husband. Trapped by both her past trauma and present torment, she’s pushed to the brink when the threat of entombment becomes all too real, culminating in a harrowing airlift in a pine box that offers no escape from the darkness within.

In "A Sucker for a Spider!", a greedy banker with a morbid fondness for spiders finds his schemes unravel when his chief teller threatens to expose him. After a tense night that turns deadly, the man flees to the skies—only to crash into a swamp and fall into the clutches of a monstrous arachnid that’s far more than a mere curiosity. The Old Witch reminds us that some debts are paid in blood.