This cartoon also exemplifies why horror holds value and meaning, too, as the morality-based tales all imparted wisdom and life lessons – so much so that season three was deemed educational by the new content ratings system recently introduced at the time. But that didn’t mean it wasn’t afraid to get dark sometimes. As a result, the Cryptkeeper often migrated from the mansion to find new spaces to tell his tales in the hopes his counterparts wouldn’t find him.īeing that this was a cartoon aimed at little boils and ghouls, the episodes were much lighter in tone than the live-action HBO series, obviously. Season two of the animated series brought in the Old Witch and the Vault-Keeper, both of whom terrorized the Cryptkeeper to vie for story hosting duties. Tales from the Cryptkeeper did something the HBO series never did introduce the other horror hosts of the EC Comics world that included sister series The Haunt of Fear and The Vault of Horror. But, uh, stick to the original two seasons- the animation, sound, and overall quality dropped quite a bit. The animated series ran for two seasons from 1993-1994 on ABC, and received a third season revival five years later titled New Tales from the Cryptkeeper on CBS. Like the HBO series, Tales from the Cryptkeeper was based on the ‘50s EC Comics horror anthologies, shared the same executive producers, and John Kassir also voiced the Cryptkeeper. ![]() Enter Tales from the Cryptkeeper, an animated, kid-friendly counterpart to popular HBO series Tales from the Crypt. It was a time where just about everything received a cartoon, from toys, to boy bands, to even horror movies. The ‘90s marked a golden age for cartoons, bringing endless waves of creativity and a serious glut of selection come Saturday morning.
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