The Scriptkeeper – The Cryptkeeper from HBO’s Tales from the Crypt
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Ichabod Crane has found a text, a litany of horrors. He begs you to return the wretched scribbling whence it came. He sends you to the Crypt of Tales. Once inside the Crypt you encounter a fiendish ghoul, The Scriptkeeper. He enjoins you to peruse the fiendish fantasies contained within his script; The Snow Queen in “Let It Snow”, The Shark Principal in “Jaws Well That Ends Well”, and finally the Unforgiving Tree. After defeating each of the Scriptkeeper’s stories, he cryptically bids you farewell in a manner that suggests he and your wizard will cross paths once again.
Prophetically, you do meet up with the Scriptkeeper once again, in Wallaru. He and Uwe along with the Avant Guard have collaborated on a play about your Wizard entitled “The Fourth Lark.” The play will premier at Hope Springs’ Juggernaut Crab Theater.
Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO’s Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series created by William Gaines and Steven Dodd that ran for seven seasons on the premium cable channel HBO, from June 10, 1989, to July 19, 1996, with a total of 93 episodes. The show’s title is based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name, published by William Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein. Despite the show’s title, episodes were not only adapted from stories from Tales from the Crypt, but also other EC Comic series including The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, and Two-Fisted Tales.
The series is hosted by the Cryptkeeper, a wisecracking corpse performed by several puppeteers and voiced by John Kassir. Filmmakers Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver, and Robert Zemeckis formed the show’s team of executive producers.
Each episode begins with a tracking shot leading to the front door of the decrepit mansion of the Cryptkeeper, the show’s host. Once inside, the camera tilts down from the foyer to the hallways and stairways, finally descending into the basement. The Cryptkeeper then comes out from his coffin, cackling wildly. Green slime pours down over the screen as the main title appears. The Cryptkeeper is depicted as an animated corpse, as opposed to the original comics in which he was a living human being.
The wisecracking Cryptkeeper, performed by a team of puppeteers such as Van Snowden, Mike Elizalde, Frank Charles Lutkus, Patty Maloney, David Arthur Nelson, Anton Rupprecht, Shaun Smith, David Stinnent, Mike Trcic, and Brock Winkless, and voiced by John Kassir, then introduced the episode with intentionally stereotyped jokes and mostly puns, e.g., his frequent greeting to viewers: “Hello, Boils and Ghouls” or “Hello, Kiddies”. Each episode was self-contained, and was bookended by an outro sequence, again involving the Cryptkeeper.
Tales from the Crypt is an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series that was published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955 created by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. The magazine began in March 1947 as International Comics. It continued under this title for five issues before becoming International Crime Patrol (#6) and Crime Patrol (#7–16). It was retitled The Crypt of Terror with issue #17 (April/May 1950). Two more issues were published under this title before it was rebranded as Tales from the Crypt for issue #20 (October/November 1950). The comic bore this title for 27 issues until being discontinued after issue #46 (February/March 1955).
Along with The Haunt of Fear and The Vault of Horror, it formed a trifecta of popular EC horror anthologies. Publication ceased, however, after horror and crime comics came under scrutiny for an alleged link to juvenile delinquency and the subsequent imposition of a highly restrictive Comics Code.
Tales from the Crypt has since been reprinted in single issues and collected volumes. It has spawned various movies and television series, including a 1972 film and a television series that aired on HBO from 1989 to 1996. The title was revived for a second volume by Papercutz (2007–2010) and for a third by Super Genius Comics (2016–2017).
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