Tales from the Crypt #6

In "Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottyness...", a nervous taxi driver picks up a mysterious passenger whose unsettling presence sets off alarm bells. After the stranger vanishes and the driver takes a walk, he realizes too late that something far more dangerous than a criminal is stalking him—something that defies logic and reason. When the nightmare ends, the driver awakens with a chilling new purpose, ready to hunt his own kind.

In "Curiosity Killed...", a woman’s growing suspicion about her neighbor’s past takes a deadly turn when she drags her husband into a scheme to uncover the truth. What starts as a desperate bid for justice spirals into a chilling betrayal neither expected.

In "How Green Was My Alley," Robert juggles two marriages with carefully divided lives—one wife devoted to bowling, the other to golf—until a town-wide tournament forces the two worlds to collide. When the wives invent a bizarre new game combining their passions, Robert finds himself in the most dangerous alley of his life.

In "The Handler," a vindictive mortician named Mr. Benedict takes grim satisfaction in exacting posthumous revenge on those who mocked him—until the dead, long patient, finally stir. When the townspeople wake to find not one, but several tombstones marking his grave, they realize too late that his final act of vengeance has taken a form far beyond their imagining.

In "A Toast... to Death!", Sherry’s resentment toward her husband Alphonse boils over when she poisons him and buries him in the vineyard, hoping to vanish with a clean slate. When a charming stranger named Jack arrives to help with the harvest, she finds herself drawn to him—until a simple glass of wine proves deadly. The story unfolds with chilling precision, turning a quiet vineyard into a stage for a fatal twist of fate.

In "Out of My Mind!", a coldly calculating woman fakes madness to cover up a murder, only to find herself trapped in a psychiatric hospital where her husband’s brother—her doctor—knows exactly what she’s done. As brutal treatments wear her down, her confession becomes inevitable, but the truth may be the last thing she ever gets to say.

In "The Switch," a coldly calculating man named Edwin finds himself entangled in a deadly game of deception when he overhears his neighbor plotting to kill his wife, Elsa. With no love lost for his own marriage, Edwin manipulates the situation by swapping door numbers, setting a trap that backfires in the most brutal way. The story unfolds with chilling precision, turning betrayal into a grim, ironic twist where every move leads to a fatal outcome.

In "Jury Duty!", a man declared dead by the law finds himself unexpectedly alive—still very much capable of murder, and now legally untouchable. With his head stuck at a crooked angle and a fresh lease on life, he returns to his estate, only to stir up a new kind of trouble: can the townspeople be held accountable for burying a man they thought was dead, even if he’s screaming the whole time?