Tales from the Crypt #3

In the chilling tale "¡El armario del horror!", a young boy named Artie is locked in the closet by his cruel step-father, Samuel Bricker, as punishment. Trapped in the dark, Artie is startled to discover a strange friend named Hozir, a creature of the closet who has his own ideas about justice—and a taste for retribution. As Hozir’s plans grow bolder, Artie must decide how far he’s willing to go before the line between punishment and revenge is crossed.

In "¡Una jugada repugnante!", a man’s cruel dismissal of a young woman catches up to him in the most chilling way when he seeks passage from a boat pilot who once loved her—only to be abandoned on an island that hides a grim secret. The pilot’s silence and the island’s isolation make it clear: some debts are paid in blood, and some pasts refuse to stay buried.

In "¡Enterrada en vida!", a woman haunted by a childhood trauma of being trapped in a cave-in finds her deepest fears twisted into a nightmare when her husband, driven by cruelty, repeatedly threatens to bury her alive. After he finally carries out the threat and she’s airlifted to the hospital in a pine box, the lid is opened—but all she sees is endless blackness, a darkness that may not be outside, but within.

In "¡Un enredo con arañas!", a corrupt banker with a secret obsession for spiders finds himself cornered by his chief teller, who knows the truth about his embezzlement. When the banker tries to eliminate the threat by unleashing a black widow beneath the teller’s bed, he sets off a chain of deadly events that spirals beyond his control. Trapped in a remote swamp after a plane crash, he faces a fate far worse than the law—suspended in the web of a monstrous arachnid, helpless as it claims him.

¡Una mina... de gas! follows a California gold miner named Whitey, shot down by a claim jumper in a brutal act of greed. When he awakens—though he knows he’s dead—he watches in horror as the killer tries to bury him, only to find the earth refuses to take his body. The jumper’s desperate attempts to silence the corpse only set the stage for a grim reckoning, as the dead man’s presence begins to twist the living man’s fate in ways he can’t comprehend.

In the frozen reaches of an Eskimo settlement, a Hollywood producer finds himself captivated by a striking American girl living among the locals. Drawn to her beauty and mystery, he secretly brings her back to the States, eager to make her a star and claim her as his own. But when her step-father tracks them down, he delivers a chilling revelation that threatens to unravel everything the producer thought he knew.

In "¡La carbonera!", young Toby is haunted by a voice in his head that drives him to mischief, earning him his aunt’s wrath. When the voice suddenly calls from the coal chute—claiming to be his aunt trapped inside—Toby hesitates, shaken by the memory of the same voice sounding like his long-dead mother. He turns away, unaware that the voice is real, and the cellar seals shut beneath a sudden avalanche of coal.

In "Supervivencia... ¡o muerte!", two crewmen on a cargo ship pass the time by building a cruel trap to test which rat will survive a brutal fight for a floating platform—only to find, when disaster strikes, that their own struggle for survival reveals a chilling truth about human nature.

In the damp shadows of the Glades, a grieving father retreats into isolation after the tragic death of his wife and the birth of a son born with deformities and stunted legs. When a series of brutal killings terrorizes the region, the sheriff arrives at his remote cabin, only to be met with fear and a gun. As wounds deepen and secrets surface, the man’s confession forces a reckoning with the truth he’s long buried—yet the full weight of what his son truly is remains shrouded in dread.

In "¡La kalamidad de Kamen!", a young artist is pushed to embrace the darker side of horror after being told his work is too gentle. Inspired by the grim visions of his peers—each depicted in macabre sketches of torment—he dreams of a violent, moonlit rampage, only to be jolted awake by his wife’s scream at the sight of a mouse.

In 1667 Germany, a greedy Duke torments his starving peasants, even taxing them for the blood of a child he ran down in the street. When Johann devises a plan to steal the Duke’s jewels to pay the unjust fine, his friend Emile volunteers—only to be caught and punished with the loss of his hands. Now, with vengeance in mind, Johann prepares a trap of his own.

In a war-torn town where hunger and desperation run deep, a butcher trades on fear and privilege—selling prime cuts to the wealthy while quietly serving tainted meat to the rest. When his young son dies after eating the spoiled meat, his wife’s quiet grief ignites into something far more chilling. With a single, precise motion, she turns her husband’s betrayal into a gruesome display, preserving his body in the very case where he once sold lies.

¡En la red! spins a tense, creeping nightmare as three construction partners flee after framing a fourth for a hospital collapse that claimed twenty-one lives. Their escape by small plane in South America takes a horrifying turn when they become ensnared in a vast, unseen web between two mountains—only to wake at dawn and realize they’re trapped in the web of something far older and hungrier than they could have imagined.

In "¡Cortar las cartas!", two bitter professional gamblers settle their rivalry with a grotesque game of chop poker—where each wager means severing a limb instead of shedding a garment. With their doctors on hand to tend to the wounds, the stakes escalate until both men are left with nothing but blood and desperation, frozen in a twisted stalemate.

In "¡Espachurrada!", a circus elephant trainer’s deadly secret comes back to haunt him when he and his new wife return to the town where he once orchestrated his wife’s gruesome demise—only to find that both the woman and the elephant have risen from the grave, seeking vengeance. The story unfolds with chilling precision, weaving betrayal, guilt, and supernatural retribution in a tale that lingers long after the final page.

In "¡Un truco para morirse!", a traveling magician and his wife, drawn to India by the promise of a new act, become obsessed with a mysterious girl who commands a rope that defies gravity—rising into the air when she plays her pipe. When she refuses to sell it, the couple devises a deadly plan to steal it, luring her to their hotel room under false pretenses. But once the deed is done, the rope reveals a terrifying will of its own, turning the tables on its would-be masters.

In "El funeral," a young prince grapples with the sudden death of his beloved nanny, only to witness her move beneath the funeral shroud. As the king offers sweets and promises of a pony to soothe his grief, the boy confronts the unsettling truth behind her stillness—her cataleptic condition. Torn between sorrow and a child’s fleeting desires, he faces a moment that will haunt him long after the candles have burned out.

In "¡Corazón solitario!", a man whose dark habit of marrying and killing wealthy women for their fortune is upended when a lonely-hearts letter arrives from a woman who claims to live in a large stone house. Her photograph, though taken two years prior, shows a beauty so striking he decides to abandon his deadly scheme and settle down. Eager to meet her, he rushes to her estate—only to find that her invitation may have led him into something far more unsettling than he ever imagined.

In "¡Espejito, espejito!", a man recounts the chilling moment he becomes a stitched-together creation, his mind transferred into a grotesque, artificial body. Trapped in a carnival’s hall of mirrors, he stumbles through endless reflections—each one a twisted, horrifying version of himself—until the sight proves fatal.

In "¡Bien está lo que bien excava!", two con artists scheme their way into a small town by promising oil riches, only to fake a death and bury their ill-gotten gains—until a careless smoker's cigarette sparks a deadly surprise beneath the grave. The story unfolds with a slow-burn tension, as greed and deception collide in a cemetery where the earth itself holds a shocking secret.

In "¡Impuesto sobre el horror!", King Moneymad’s insatiable tax machine grinds down his people, squeezing every last coin from their lives—until even their thumbs become a taxable burden. When the final cut comes, the oppressed rise in fury, turning the king’s cruelty against him in a gruesome reckoning.