Based on the legendary and gruesome EC Comics from publisher William Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, the super natural, gore and humor and always had a twist ending of sorts. Some of Hollywood´s biggest names took part, either working in front or behind the camera. Hosting duties fell to everyone´s favorite decaying corpse, the CryptKeeper. The success of this series spawned a Saturday morning cartoon series ( Tales From the Cryptkeeper ), a short-lived Saturday morning game show on CBS ( Secrets of the Cryptkeeper´s Haunted House ) and lots of merchandise. Two feature films ( Demon Knight and Bordello of Blood ) were also produced and released in the late 90´s. The TV series originally aired on HBO, but was later syndicated to Fox, the Sci-Fi Channel, and most recently AMC. Despite being a short season (only 6 episodes), Season 1 enjoyed the highest ratings in its HBO airings.