Tales from the Crypt is no Sopranos,
but in its day it was HBO's most popular original series. Based on
the EC Horror comics of the 1940s and 1950s, these short
shock-and-suspense stories with twist (and often twisted) endings
weren't exclusively horror tales, but they consistently mined, in a
comic sort of way, the dark side of human nature. They really should
revive this series. TV is woefully lacking in this genre.
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