One of my personal favorites! This one was taken from Haunt of Fear #23. In this one a circus performer gets cat's glands implanted in him so he has nine lives. He dies eight grusome deaths in fromtnt of an audience eight times and becomes a millionaire in the process. The ninth time, he is buried alive. And it isn't until he's underground that he realizes that he shorted himself his last life for that cat he killed to get the glands wasted one of his lives.
The Man Who Was Death
Another fav of mine. An electrician moves to the city and becomes a state executioner who is fired because the death penalty was recently eliminated. He decided to give any and all criminals his own form of justice by subjecting them to his own personal death penalty. He's caught and finds himself in the chair just at the right time that the ceath penelty is reinstated.
And All through the House
A woman kills her husband on Christmas Eve for his insurance. Meanwhile there is a mental patient escapee dressed up as Santa Claus carrying an axe. He gets into the house and she is in quite a quiver for she can't call the police or her homicidal activities will be discovered.
Only Sin Deep
A prostitute is in need of money so she kills a pimp for his jewlery. The pawnbroker asks to buy her beauty for $10,000 instead, which she accepts. She finds a husband but discovers that she is aging very very fast. She goes bake to the borker to buy her beauty back which he agrees to....for 10 times the price. She tries stealing the money from her husband but he stops her. She ends up shooting him. The police start looking for her, but they are looking for her with a face 20 years younger. The only way she can keep her hideous past a secret is to live with her wretchedly aged face.
Lover, come Hack to Me
After making love for the first time on their wedding night, Charlie finds that his new wife Peggy is screwing a guy downstairs. He goes downstairs to investigate and sees her hacking the guy to bits. He realizes that he is in fact seing a psychic vision. When he wakes up from his sleep, he finds out that he was playing a flashforward of his future.
Collection Completed
A etired man has to deal with his wife who has a very dangerous bond with her pets. Unable to stand her loonacy, he takes up taxidermy and stufs all of her prized pets. She returns the favor by killing and stuffing him.
Dead Right
Demi Moore plays a waitress who finds out that everything her fortune teller comes true. She tells her that she will marry a man who will inherit a million dollars. She meets a man that night and marrys him. And he did inherit a million dollars. He inherits her money the next day that she won from the lottery after he kills her.
The Switch
An old milionarire is lonely and switches bodies with a young lad in exchange for his money. Then he finds his true love just wanted money and he watches as his "young lad friend, now decked out in his own old body marries his girl.
Cutting Cards
A poker game unlike another. Two card sharks pay for the highest stakes of all: their own appendages.
'Til Death
A plantation owner tries to win the heart of a wealthy girl so he can rebuild his house. When she dismises him he goes to a voodoo doctor hwho give him a potion: a potion that will win her heart with one squirt, and will make him hers for life with two. The first drop does nothing to her, but the second does. She ends up dying and then he finds out she is indeed his for HIS life...after she comes back from thedead looking for him.
Three's a Crowd
Richard and Della are a couple in the midst of a Rocky marraige. when Della strts acting strangely distant, Richard assumes she is cheating. Also, since Della has been infertile, any chance for a child is impossible. Thoroughly disgusted by Della's distant attitude, he kills her. Then he realizes what mistake he made when he finds out that Della's distant attitude was because she was giving him a surprise party because she found out she was indeed pregnant.
The Thing from the Grave
Mitch finds out his girlfriend (who is a model) has fallen for her photographer who plans to love her forever. Mitch kills him and finds out later the photographer meant forever as he rises as a zombie.
The Sacrifice
Reed decided to kill off a rich tycoon and marry his wife. The wife and him devise a plan to do it but is backfires when her dead husban'd boss witnesses the murder. Reed decided to take all blame for the murder and kill himself. Which was indeed the wife's plan because her and the boss were very much in love and were in cahoots.
For Cryin Out Loud
A rock promoter starts hearing voices. He later finds out it his his conscience. His banker tries to blackmail him so he kills her. His conscience drives him mad with the guilt and he confesses to the murder....which drives him right to the electric chair.
Four Sided Triangle
A runaway becomes a slave to an abusive farmer. She runs into the field and envisions that the scarecrow is saving her from their torment. She begins to view the scarecrow as her lover. The farmer becomes disgusted at her odd behavior and drives a pitchfork through tthe scarecrow. Feeling that she lost the love of her life, she stabs the farmers wife with the pitchfork.
The Ventriloquist's Dummy
Judy, you're not yourself today
A pedler tries to show Donald's wife a necklace with the intent to swirch bodies with her.
Fitting Punishment
A rather scrooge-like uncle who owns a funeral home ends up with an extra coffi. Since he did oay for it, and it was rather small, he decides to kill his nephew so his money won't go to waste. However it is too small for him, so the uncle has to cut off the boy's feet so he fits. The boy returns, without feet wanting to get revenge.
Korman's Kalamity
A Tales From the Crypt cartoonist finds that his creations can come to life.
Lower Berth
One of the best....this is indeed the Crypt Keeper's orgin.
Mute Witness to Murder
A mute woman witnesses a neighbor murder his wife and goes to the hospital with the diagnosese of "spechless from shock". She feels more comfortable until she finds out her doctor is indeed her neighbor that killed his wife.
Television Terror My Brother's Keeper
One of the siamese twin brothers in this episode do not want a seperation surgery for fear he will be lonely. The other brother tricks him into falling for a girl. A love triangle forms and the one siamese ends up murdering the girl. And unfortunately, the one brother can't call the police because if the murderer brother was sentenced to death, he would be sentenced as well.
The Secret
Vampires adopt a boy with the intent to eat hinm. Then later they find out he is indeed a werewolf that feeds on vampires.
Loved to Death
A deadly love potion goes ary.....
Carrion Death
A theif shoots a cop with the intent to get free. Unfortunately, he was handcuffed to the cop. He now must try to fleee through the desert with a dead cop dragging and a swarm of hungry buzzards around him.
The Trap
Lou wants to fake his own death to get out of paying bills and drags his wife and brother into the plans. While he is "dead" his wife and brother fall in love. When he comes back, his wife and brother refuse to acknowledge who he is and he is put to death for his own murder because his fingerprints were on hi murder weapon.
Abra-Cadaver
A serum is invented that allows the brain to stay receptive even after death. Of course thuis doesn't work if you don't have a recently dead person to try this on...
Top Billing
A strbggling actor would kill to get a part. And he does...only to find out the theater group wh weaseled himself into was a mental hosital.
Dead Wait
Criminal steals pearl. Crimainal eats pearl. Criminal gets hand thrusted through his stomach to retrive pearl. Need I say more?
The Reluctant Vampire
A nightwatchman at a bloodbank becomes a vampire.
Easel Kill Ya
Jack is an eccentric artist who kills his neighbor and then paints pictures of the aftermath. An art collector commissions him to paint for it, but he gives it up for new love. When she gets into an accident he murders a man so he can paint a picture for that art collector so that he can get money to pay for the surgery that will save her life. Unfortunately for him, the art collector turns out to be the man he just murdered.
Undertaking Palor
The town pharmacist and the town undertaker are suspected to be in cahoots. The pharmacist deals poisonous drugs to all his patients so that his friend, the undertaker's, business is profitable.
Mournin' Mess
Cannibals. Dicing and eating homeless people.
Split Second
Lumberjack becomes a jealous husband, especially after he finds his new wife in the sack with a younger man. He makes the young man blind by hacking his eye out with an axe. The young man gets the most appropriate revenge.
Deadline
A newspaper reporter so desperate for a good story is led to murder...with an interesting twist at the end.
Spoiled
A doctor makes his cheating wife and her new loer a part of hi experiment.
Yellow
Fear causes a WWI soldier to leave his troop in danger. His father, the general sentences him to death at a firing squad for putting his troop in such danger. Of course a father wouldn't really kill his son and the firing squads are shooting blanks....hopefully.
None but the Lonely Heart
A man makes his living by shacking up with wealthy wives and then kills them. But tehy return. With a vengence.
This'll Kill Ya
A serum is found with deadly sideeffects. Especially for practical jokers.
On a Dead Man's Chest
A demonic tatto drives a man to murder.
Seance
I think the name gives you a pretty good indication.
What's Cookin?
A delectable cookout. With human flesh as the main course.
The New Arrival
A psycologist tries to handle a dysfunctional family. His staff is being killed in awful way as he slowly gets to the root of their demonic problem.
Beauty Rest
A jealous beauty queen is nam Miss Autopsy 1992. You have to se this one to believe it.
Showdown
The ghost of his most recent wild west showdown loser haunts a young cowboy...wanting for an even bloodier rematch.
King of the Road
A cocky ex drag racer slips with his nemesis' teenage daughter in hopes to irk him for a rematch. He does, with deadly endings.
Maniac at Large
A librarian goes nuts thinking about a serial killer that is on the loose Her psychosis develops throughout the story and you lowly discover that she herself is the serial killer.
Split Personality
A guy tells twins that he in fact has a twin brother, just so hcan marry both of them. They find out he lied, so they cut him in half with a chainsaw just so there is a half for each of them.
Strung Along
A maniac puppet goes after his master.
Werewolf Concerto
Everyone suspects the rampage of murdersin a small town is du to werewolves. A werewolf hunter (That is my future occupation by the way) is called. He of course turns out to be a werewolf himself and falls in love with a girl...who just happens to be a vampire.
Curiosity Killed
A huisband tries to kep a youth-preserving serum away from his wife. She poisons him. She drinks th youthful serum and regrets the consequences.
Death of Some Salesman
THIS IS THE BEST EVER! Tim Curry plays THREE roles in this one! A salesman who sells fake cemetery plots shows up at a family's front door. He marrys the daughter and instructs his new wife to kill her mother and father to gfet their vast fortune. The daughter shows him where the fortune is and he shoots her as well. He starts digging for the fortune only to realize that Ma and Paare not dead and they have a plot waiting for him.
As Ye Sow
A hired hitman backfires....Conspiracy at its best.
Forever Ambergis
More conspiracy. This tijme with deadly viruses.
Food for Thought
A circus psychic reads his assistants every thought. He reads that her asistant has plans to run of with the torch eater, so he kills him. The assistant runs away so he tries telepathically to call her home, but he accidentally summons a hungry gorilla instead.
People who live in Brass Hearses
Siamese Twins again.
Two for the Show
A car their accidentally steals a car that has a corpse in the trunk.
House of Horror
Pledge night and three new pledges have to spend the night in a haunted mansion. The pledges just think that the houe is boobytrapped to scare them. Until the sorority sisters turn out to be vampires.
Well-Cooked Hams
Demon Knight's star (Zane) tries to bump off a magician to try and steal his tricks.
Creep Course
A history teacher becomes upset with one of his students and therefore decides to turn her into an offering for his live Mummy in his basement...which ends up turning on him.
Came the Dawn
A man's irritable feminine side proves to be a deadly killer.
Oil's that Ends Well
Woman says oil is underground to get men to buy land. There really i no oil underground, so she takes the money and runs. They track her down and try to kill her. She lights a cigarette....oil is flammable, right?
Half Way Horrible
A manufacturer buries his friend alive to complete ihis preserve. His preserve is almost done, but he can't finish it because he is overrun by the guilt. Especially when his zombied friend returns.
Till Death Do Us Part
A gigaolo is bought by an older woman and ends up cheating on her. She orders him to kill his mistress and he kills her henchmen instead. A very interesting ending to this one.
Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
A lawyer is aarrested in a very stirct town for having too many letters on her license plate, where she learns once and for all the meaning of "tough justice".
Only Skin Deep
A woman with a disfigured face kills others and slices their face off to wear on various occasions.
Whirlpool
Rita Rudner is trapped in time where she must repeat the same day over and over again.
Operation Friendship (for you perverts out there: this is indeed Episode #69)
A guy feels that his best buddies girlfriend is pulling him away from him. And then....schizophrenia sets in.
Revenge is the Nuts
A blind woman is in a deadly pedicament. She either has to watch her friends be tormented by their new House for the Blind's owner, or sleep with him and be tormented herself.
The Bribe
A man, upset at a strip club for letting his underage daughter perform there, decides to hire an arsonist and burns it down. Which is indeed successful....except for the fact his daughter was still trapped inside.
The Pit
Two wives of boxing rivals go head to head.
Staired in Horror
A house has a curse on it....a curse of beauty.
In The Groove,
A lady tries to kill his sister after she takes a fire at him. he thinks he's nuts. She wants his job.
Surprise Party
A young man murdered his father to inherit a house that later burnt down. The man returns and finds the house completely intact as if it was never burned....and a surprise waiting inside.
Doctor of Horror
A doctor tries to see if it is posible to capture a soul of a deseased person before it goes to the world of beyond.
Comes the Dawn
Scene is set in Alaska where a woman who cliams to be a nomad steers a group iof lost Army man in the right direction...right into a pack of vampires. They get away and hide in a shed until the sun is about the rise...until they remember one important thing. Alaska has 6 months of darkness.
99 and 44/100% Pure Horror
A wife kills her soap company owneing husband after she is forbidden to be the spokesperson for their product. She decides to wash herself clean with his handmade soap, only to find a deadly surprise.
You, Murderer
A scheming couple trying to hide their real identities get what they deserve. Being squished by a 4 ton truck.
A Fatal Caper
Before his death, a man decides to disown his sons. The only way the two sons could collect their money is if they found their missing brother. Interesting conspiracies. And a sex-change.
Last Respects
Sidters find a monkey paw and theink their worries are overThree wishes are made...and of course no one is careful what they wish for.
A Slight Case of Murder
Research for a murder mystery book goes a little too far.
Escape
A WWII traitor is confined at a prison camp. He thinks he escapes...better think again.
Horror in the Night
Conscience comes at the worst possible time for a jewlery thief.
Cold War
Zombies falling in love with Vampires. Yadda Yadda Yadda.
The Kidnapper
A man jealous of the time his friend is spending with her child plans on hiring someone to steal it from her.
Report from the Grave
A man believes he can harnass thoughts from the dead into a machine. Oh, this sounds like a great idea.
About Face
The Siamese twins return.
Ear today, gone tomorrow
A deaf man tries to repair his hearing. Incredible complications arise.
Confession
A screenwriter is suspected in mass serial killings. Great ending.
The Third Pig
Done all in Cartoon. An adult (and evil) version of The Three Little Pigs
