"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.
Fatal Caper 6.4
Fecha de emisión: 1996-04-19
Duración: 28 min
Sinopsis: Two adult brothers come to blows over the the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.
Last Respects 5.6
Fecha de emisión: 1996-04-26
Duración: 24 min
Sinopsis: Three bickering sisters left in charge of their late father's struggling curiosity shop come into possession of a cursed monkey's paw, and try to use it to their advantage - with deadly results.
A Slight Case of Murder 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 1996-05-03
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A game of cat and mouse ensues between a female mystery novelist and her jealous former husband when he accuses her of having a love affair with her nosy neighbor's son.
Escape 5.7
Fecha de emisión: 1996-05-17
Duración: 25 min
Sinopsis: A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp and one of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp and promises to reveal his identity.
Horror in the Night 6.8
Fecha de emisión: 1996-05-24
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A double-crossing jewel thief is shot and hides out in a hotel where he starts to hallucinate about a mysterious beautiful woman.
Cold War 6.5
Fecha de emisión: 1996-05-31
Duración: 25 min
Sinopsis: After losing their friend Cutter in a botched robbery, Ford and Cammy, a wild young Londoner crime couple, split up and Cammy finds a new lover, Jimmy. Jealous, Ford shoots him and the trio discovers something shocking about one another.
The Kidnapper 4.9
Fecha de emisión: 1996-06-07
Duración: 24 min
Sinopsis: A young man takes in a pregnant woman and falls in love with her but becomes jealous when her baby is born so he sets out to get rid of the kid forever.
Report from the Grave 5.3
Fecha de emisión: 1996-06-14
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A scientist named Elliot invents a way to read memories of the dead. To test the device, Elliot and his girlfriend Arianne break into the crypt of a dead serial killer.
Smoke Wrings 5.0
Fecha de emisión: 1996-06-21
Duración: 25 min
Sinopsis: A young man with a strange device is hired onto an advertising company by an esteemed executive--but what the exec doesn't know is that the young man is in cahoots with her enraged ex-partner who is out for revenge.
About Face 5.1
Fecha de emisión: 1996-06-28
Duración: 25 min
Sinopsis: A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.
Confession 7.3
Fecha de emisión: 1996-07-05
Duración: 27 min
Sinopsis: Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.
Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow 4.9
Fecha de emisión: 1996-07-12
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A greedy safe cracker with a slight hearing loss gets entangled in a game between a mobster and his beautiful, exotic wife and ends up getting the auditory system he could only dream of. But there's a price.
The Third Pig 5.1
Fecha de emisión: 1996-07-19
Duración: 24 min
Sinopsis: In this cartoon version of the Three Little Pigs story, Dudly, the smart pig, is framed for the murders of his brothers and sentenced to death. But, his brothers' spirits help him seek revenge on the wolf.
