Diehl, Digby. Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives. Designed by David Kastle and Rick DeMonico. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 256pp. ISBN 0-312-14486-5 (cloth).
Acknowledgments ... 3
Design Credits ... 4
In the Beginning ... 9
- The Birth of the Comic Book ... 14
The Grisly Creativity of William Gaines ... 19
EC Splatters America with an Explosion of Horror ... 28
- The Descent into the Crypt: The Early Days of DC ... 24
Premature Death of Tales ... 81
- The Just Desserts Cookbook: EC's Grisly Morality Plays ... 38
- Send in the Ghouls: The Crypt Keeper as Horror Host ... 42
- The EC Constellation of Comic Book Artists ... 53
- EC's Mad Magazine ... 74
- Further into Horror: The Comics Become More Gruesome ... 77
The Fans Keep the Flame Alive ... 145
- The Weird Science of Dr. Fredric Wertham ... 84
- The Kefauver Hearings ... 89
- Bowing to the Inevitable: EC Quits Horror ... 94
- Corpses & Covers: Covers of All 105 EC Horror Comics ... 97
- Four Foul Tales: Four Complete Classic Tales in Their Original Form ... 110
- cover to Tales from the Crypt #33 ... 111
- "Are You a Red Dupe?" (advertisement parody) ... 112
- "Lower Berth" (Feldstein & Davis, Tales from the Crypt #33) ... 113
- "The Thing from the Grave" (Feldstein, Tales from the Crypt #22) ... 121
- "Horror We? How's Bayou?" (Ingels, Haunt of Fear #17) ... 129
- "The October Game" (Kamen & Feldstein, adapting a Bradbury story, ShockSuspenStories #9) ... 137
A Star Is...Exhumed: Tales Resurrected on TV ... 161
- Tales from an English Crypt: The 1970s Movies ... 53
Now a Major Motion Picture ... 212
- Joel Silver: The Spark Plug ... 166
- Bringing the Crypt Keeper to Life - Kevin Yagher and His Puppeteers ... 174
- The Crypt Compendium: A Complete Flmography of the Series ... 187
Yesterday's Memories... Tomorrow's Treasures ... 228
- Demon Knight ... 214
- Special Effects Wizard Todd Masters and His Demons ... 220
- Bordello of Blood ... 222
Bibliography ... 253
- Collectibles from the Crypt ... 233
- Bill Gaines - An Appreciation ... 240
- A Final Gift from the Crypt: Picto-Fiction Story - "The Mother," Illustrated by Jack Davis ... 242
Index ... 254
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