Tales from the Crypt
Subtitle: The Official Archives including The Complete History of E.C. Comics and the Hit Television Series
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: October 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312144869
Description: Since his debut forty-six years ago, the Crypt Keeper and "Tales from the Crypt" have captured the imaginations and scared the wits out of people with their ghostly tales and grisly visions. Now open the vault and relive the experience:

The official biography of the Crypt Keeper and history of EC Horror Comics.

A previously unpublished Picto-Fiction horror story drawn by Jack Davis

All 105 EC Horror Comic covers reproduced in "living" color

A pictorial "filmography" of the award-winning HBO and Fox Television series featuring credits, synopses, and at least one "terroriffic" picture from every episode

Four original (and complete) stories by Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels, and Jack Kamen (based on a classic Ray Bradbury story) reprinted from the actual art and reproduced in color in their original size

Brief biographies and portfolios of the key EC artists

Collectibles section highlighting the coolest and most valuable Crypt merchandise

A behind-the-screams look at the Tales from the Crypt Productions' feature films

And much much more! Of corpse, of corpse!
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements
title: 5; label: Design Credits
title: 6; label: Contents
title: 8; label: In the Beginning
title: 9; label: The Grisly Creativity of William Gaines
title: 19; label: E.C. Splatters America with an Explosion of Horror
title: 28; label: The Just Desserts Cookbook: EC's Grisly Morality Plays
title: 38; label: The EC Constellation of Comic Book Artists
title: 53; label: EC's Mad Magazine
title: 74; label: Further into Horror: The Comics Became More Gruesome
title: 77; label: Premature Death Tales
title: 81; label: The Weird Science of Dr. Frederic Wertham
title: 84; label: Bowing to the Inevitable: EC Quits Horror
title: 94; label: Corpses and Covers: Covers of All 105 EC Horror Comics
title: 97; label: Four Fowl Tales: Four Complete Classic Tales in Their Original Form
title: 110; label: The Crypt of Terror: Lower Berth
title: 111; label: The Crypt of Terror: The Thing from the Grave
title: 121; label: The Witch's Cauldron: Horror We? How's Bayou?
title: 129; label: A Horror Suspenstory: The October Game
title: 137; label: The Fans Keep the Flame Alive
title: 145; label: Tales from an English Crypt: The 1970s Movies
title: 153; label: A Star is... Exhumed:Tales Resurrected on TV
title: 161; label: Joel Silver: The Spark Plug
title: 166; label: Bringing the Crypt Keeper to Life: Kevin Yagher and his Puppeteers
title: 174; label: The Crypt Compendium: A Complete Filmography of the Series
title: 187; label: Season 1
title: 188; label: Season 2
title: 190; label: Season 3
title: 195; label: Season 4
title: 198; label: Season 5
title: 202; label: Season 6
title: 206; label: Season 7
title: 209; label: Now a Major Motion Picture
title: 212; label: Demon Knight: The Big Scream
title: 214; label: Tales from the Script
title: 216; label: Todd Master: Demon Knight
title: 220; label: Bordello of Blood
title: 222; label: A Kinder, Gentler Keeper (animated series/game show)
title: 227; label: Yesterday's Memories... Tomorrow's Treasures
title: 228; label: Collectibles from the Crypt
title: 233; label: Bill Gaines: An Appreciation
title: 240; label: Photo-Fiction Story: "The Mother," Illustrated by Jack Davis
title: 242; label: Biography
title: 253; label: Index
title: 254