Tales from the Crypt
originally aired on HBO
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. Most of the program's episodes are based on stories that originally appeared in that comic or other EC Comics of the time. The series is hosted by the Cryptkeeper, a wisecracking corpse performed by several puppeteers and voiced by John Kassir.
The Cryptkeeper is depicted as an animated corpse, as opposed to the original comics in which he was a living human being. Each episode was self-contained, and was bookended by an outro sequence involving the Cryptkeeper.