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Author Diehl, Digby.

Title Tales from the crypt : the official archives / by Digby Diehl ; designed by David Kaestle and Rick DeMonico.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  741.5 DIE    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Teen  TEEN 741.59 DIE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and index.
Contents In the beginning -- The birth of the comic book -- The grisly creativity of William Gaines -- The descent into the crypt : the early days of EC -- ES splatters America with an explosion of horror -- The just desserts cookbook : EC's grisly morality plays -- Send in the ghouls : the crypt keeper as horror host -- The EC constellation of comic book artists -- EC's Mad Magazine -- Further into horror : the comics become more gruesome -- Premature death of tales -- The weird science of Dr. Fredric Wertham -- The Kefauver hearings -- Bowing to the inevitable : EC quits horror -- Corpses & covers : covers of all 105 EC horror comics -- Four four tales : four complete classic tales in their original form -- The fans keep the flame alive -- Tales from an English crypt : the 1970s movies -- A star is exhumed : tales resurrected on TV -- Joel Silver : the spark plug -- Bringing the Crypt Keeper to life : Kevin Yagher and his puppeteers -- The crypt compendium : a complete filmography of the series -- Now a major motion picture -- Demon knight -- Special effects wizard Todd Masters and his demons -- Bordello of blood -- Yesterday's memories - tomorrow's treasures -- Collectibles from the crypt -- Bill Gaines : an appreciation -- A final gift from the crypt : picto-fiction story - "The Mother" / illustrated by Jack Davis.
Subject Gaines, William M.
EC Comics.
Tales from the crypt (Comic strip) -- Miscellanea.
Tales from the crypt (Television program) -- Miscellanea.
Added Author Gaines, William M.
Kaestle, David.
DeMonico, Rick.
EC Comics.
ISBN 0312144865
9780312144869
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