"Historias de la cripta" comenzó a emitirse en televisión en 1989 con la intención de revindicar el género de terror con el mismo romanticismo que lo hiciera "La dimensión desconocida" de Rod Serling en la década de los 50 y 60. Las historias eran adaptaciones de la colección de cómics de terror que la editorial EC Comics había publicado en los 50, en los que los personajes se veían enfrentados a destinos de lo más tétrico y donde cada historia era presentada por "El Guardián de la Cripta", gran anfitrión del horror, que comentaba detalles escabrosos de cada cuento y que incluso se burlaba con ironía de los lectores. Esta forma de introducir el cómic se conservó en la serie de televisión en la que cada episodio está precedido por un muñeco cadavérico, que resulta una excelente versión del que aparecía en las historias originales de papel.
The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone 7.3
Fecha de emisión: 1989-06-10
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: Niles Talbot moved from the country to the big city to get a job as an electrian but ended up as an executioner. His trouble begins when he's suddenly uemployed and decides to take the law into his own hands.
On Christmas Eve, a woman slaughters her husband and learns that she's on Santa's naughty list when an escaped maniac dressed as Santa Claus shows up at her doorstep with a special present for her.
A bum named Ulric is given the chance of a lifetime when a scientist puts the gland of a cat inside his body. Soon Ulric becomes the main attraction at a sideshow.
Only Sin Deep 6.4
Fecha de emisión: 1989-06-14
Duración: 27 min
Sinopsis: A call girl goes to a pawnshop to rob him of his jewelry. Instead the owner offers her 10,000 dollars for her beauty. She sells her beauty and lands a new job but discovers she is aging very fast.
Lover Come Hack to Me 5.9
Fecha de emisión: 1989-06-21
Duración: 28 min
Sinopsis: Charles marries Peggy but only for her money, planning to kill her and make it look like an accident. One night, things change when her dead mother pays a visit and Peggy shows Charles her own family tradition.
Collection Completed 6.4
Fecha de emisión: 1989-06-28
Duración: 28 min
Sinopsis: After 47 year of tool sales, Jonas has finally found some time to relax and take a break. Or so he thinks. After he returns from his work, he finds out that his wife has been taking in stray animals. He decides to take up a new hobby...taxidermy.
