The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #2

In "Reflection of Death!", the Crypt-Keeper invites you into a chilling tale of dread and deception, where Al, a man haunted by a nightmarish vision, finds himself caught in a loop of terror on a desolate road. As he stumbles from one terrified encounter to the next—each more harrowing than the last—his grip on reality frays, leading to a mirror that reveals a face not his own. The dream ends… but the headlights are still coming.

In "Last Respects!", the Old Witch sets the stage for a chilling tale of forbidden love and twisted devotion. Anthony Colton, the chauffeur of Anna Cooper’s uncle, is consumed by grief and obsession after Anna’s death, leading him to a macabre act of devotion in her mausoleum—where he is trapped with her body and the carnival prize he brought her.

In "Seance!", the Crypt-Keeper introduces a chilling tale of deception and dread, where Alan Bitsby challenges a medium to summon his supposedly deceased wife, Martha, in a bid to expose fraud. As the seance unfolds and the medium claims to channel Martha’s spirit, the room grows thick with tension—only for the truth to unravel in a way no one could have foreseen.

In "Bats in My Belfry!", a desperate actor seeking to regain his hearing agrees to a radical procedure recommended by a mysterious figure—only to awaken with supernatural hearing and unsettling new instincts. As his transformation deepens, he begins to suspect the truth behind the procedure: the donor wasn't just a bat, but something far more sinister. The Crypt-Keeper sets the stage for a chilling tale of ambition, deception, and the price of unnatural gifts.

In "The Living Death!", a chilling tale from The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #2, the Old Witch introduces a macabre story of obsession and science gone wrong. When a surgeon’s love for a woman leads to her death during an operation, he later finds himself saved from a fatal brain tumor—only to be preserved in a state of unnatural stasis, bound by a hypnotic command tied to a single name. The moment that name is spoken, the truth of his condition is revealed in horrifying fashion.

Duncan Reynolds thought he was just reading a spooky story—until hunger pulled him into a diner serving something far too real. When he wakes up with a corpse in his arms and the taste of something unspeakable on his tongue, he’s sure it was all a nightmare. But when the craving returns, and the fridge door swings open on its own, he realizes some stories don’t stay in the book.

In "Scared to Death!", the Crypt-Keeper spins a tale of greed and twisted loyalty: Frank marries Cora Weatherby Kearns, not for love but to claim her uncle Alex Weatherby’s fortune. When the wait grows too long, he convinces Cora to help murder Alex—only to grow disgusted by her guilt and plot her own demise next. But Alex, it turns out, has a few tricks of his own.

When a mysterious old crone casts a spell that swaps her body with Judy Abelson, her husband Donald finds himself trapped in a nightmare he didn’t foresee. As the lines between identity and deception blur, he must outwit the crone’s dark magic before she claims his wife’s life forever.

In "The Works...In Wax!", the sinister wax museum owned by Henri and his wife Marie becomes a stage for eerie whispers and twisted vengeance. When Marie begins to hear the wax figures screaming in agony and alters their poses to reflect peace, Henri’s fury ignites—leading to a chilling act of violence. As the museum’s silent statues finally rise, their retribution takes a form both grotesque and unforgettable.

In "The Borrowed Body!", the Vault-Keeper spins a chilling tale of betrayal and twisted fate: a wife and her lover conspire to kill her husband, only for the plan to unravel in a brutal accident. When the lover dies and his soul is unexpectedly transferred into the husband’s body, the husband—now inhabiting his killer’s form—walks out of the hospital to face the woman who betrayed him.

In "Indian Burial Mound," the Crypt-Keeper spins a tale of arrogance and ancient wrath: when Roy Madison dismisses a local warning and destroys an Indian burial mound to build a flight school, he unleashes something far older than modern machinery. As thunder rolls and drums echo through the night, his fate is sealed in silence—only to be discovered the next morning, scalped and still clutching the keys to his bulldozer.

In "Political Pull!", the Old Witch spins a tale of ambition and vengeance, where a newly elected mayor’s triumph is haunted by the past. After a rival’s poisoning and a missing suicide note, the truth surfaces too late—leading to a gruesome reckoning at sea, where the dead reach back with a grip no storm can break.

The Crypt-Keeper introduces a chilling tale of theatrical ambition gone horribly wrong, where two American producers scheme to import Parisian Grand Guignol horror to Broadway—only to face a deadly reckoning when the theatre owner, M'sieu Matier, returns from the dead. With a gory past and a vendetta, he turns their own stagecraft against them, replacing props with real horrors in a twisted revenge that turns the spotlight into a death trap.

In "Madame Bluebeard," the Vault-Keeper recounts a chilling tale of a mother who raises her daughter to despise men, avenging her own mother’s death by killing one husband a year—each death staged as an accident. When her seventh victim survives the crash she orchestrated, she must finish the job herself, only to find that the graves she built for her victims are not as silent as she believed. The story unfolds with a slow, creeping dread, where the past refuses to stay buried.

In a chilling tale from *The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #2*, the Old Witch introduces a story of betrayal during the French Revolution, where a nobleman’s treachery leads to a macabre reckoning. After mocking a servant’s grim demonstration of a headless chicken, he soon finds himself confronted by the very horror he dismissed—when the servant guides his former master’s severed head to claim justice.

In "Bargain in Death!", two medical students, Mel and Sid, desperate to complete their anatomy requirement, strike a grim deal with a gravedigger and a handyman to exhume a freshly buried body—only to discover the corpse is a man who faked his own death in a twisted insurance scam. With the Crypt-Keeper’s chilling narration setting the tone, the story unfolds as deception, greed, and the line between life and death blur in a tale that’s as dark as it is unforgettable.

In "Ants in Her Trance!", The Vault-Keeper warns of a hypnotist’s deadly game, where a trance meant to stop a heart becomes a curse that outlives death. When a man and his lover try to bury the past with a fatal twist of words, the dead don’t stay quiet — and the grave has a new command to give.

In "A-Corny Story," the Crypt-Keeper introduces a chilling tale of vengeance rooted in age and regret, where a wronged man returns to Haiti seeking retribution through a voodoo curse that reverses time—literally. With a tree that grows in reverse and a boss who’s doomed to unravel from adulthood back to infancy, the story twists fate into a haunting, unforgettable spiral.