Tales from the Crypt #1

The Crypt-Keeper spins a chilling tale of the traveling carnival, where Enoch, the two-headed man, and Myrna, the female mummy, share a bond that defies death itself—leading to a legacy that echoes through the ages.

In "This Trick'll Kill You!", a greedy magician, obsessed with mastering a mysterious Indian girl’s uncanny ability to make a rope dance with her flute, commits a brutal act that unleashes a far more dangerous force than he ever imagined. When the rope begins to move on its own—alive with vengeance—his dark ambition turns into a desperate fight for survival.

In "The Funeral," a young boy coping with the loss of his beloved nanny is stunned when he learns she was only in a coma—alive all along. But when he discovers a funeral might mean free food, he decides to make sure she gets one, no matter what.

In "None But the Lonely Heart!", a man whose grim profession involves marrying wealthy women for their money is intrigued by a lonely-hearts letter from a woman who lives in a large stone house. She shares a photograph of a stunningly beautiful woman—taken two years prior—and her quiet, haunting words stir something unexpected in him. Drawn by her promise of a new life, he rushes to meet her, unaware of the chilling truth waiting in the shadows of her estate.

In "Touch and Go!", a man attempts the flawless murder, only to find his own meticulous planning unraveling as he obsessively tries to erase every trace of his presence—every surface, every object, every memory of what he touched. As paranoia sets in and the line between clean-up and madness blurs, the police arrive the next morning to find him polishing silverware in the attic, frozen in a moment of desperate denial.

In "One for the Money...", a man’s financial ruin triggers a devastating betrayal, leading to a tragic end that sets a new woman on a path of uneasy hope. After his death, Anita returns to the scene of his demise, drawn by a strange sense of connection, only to be offered a strange new life as a paid companion to an elderly widow. Arriving at the woman’s home, she finds herself entangled with the widow’s son, a man haunted by past heartbreak and driven by a quiet, simmering need for retribution.

In "Fired!", Patricia, the lonely owner of the Circle-Diamond cattle ranch, finds herself drawn to Roy Willis, a ranch hand she promotes to foreman. When Roy grows bored and abandons her for a woman in town, Patricia decides to make him remember her—permanently—by branding his face with the Circle-Diamond’s mark.

In this chilling tale from Tales from the Crypt #1, a man’s desperate attempt to hide his crime takes a terrifying turn when he swaps his wife’s trunk with an identical one on a train—only to find a stranger’s body in the replacement. The twist is as cold as the steel of the train car, and the consequences are far from what he expected.