The Crypt-Keeper (host); Dr. Carl Winston (heart specialist, death); Ben Norton (funeral parlor undertaker); Dr. Joseph Fairbanks (villain, surgeon)
Synopsis
A doctor rigs up an elaborate hoax to convince his heart specialist friend that his theory of awareness immediately after death could be true by pretending to poison him but really only administering an anesthetic. When the heart specialist fails to come out from it, they realize he truly is dead, and since the story is told in first person, it confirms the doctor's theory of awareness beyond death since the end of the story reveals that the heart specialist died of a heart attack upon ingesting the supposed poisoned brandy and subsequently relates everything he perceives.
The Vault-Keeper (host); Clark; Ruth; Miss Kirby (stewardess); Captain Miller (pilot); Mr. Kubleski; Mr. Dawson; Mr. Howard (death); Mr. Ansen; Mr. Ames; Mrs. Ames
Synopsis
A plane goes down in the ocean and the passengers make for an atoll where the captain announces they have a gun and a medical kit. People's belongings begin to go missing and they realize that what is being stolen is silver. Two people are attacked and killed and they come to believe there is a werewolf among the passengers. Although the werewolf thinks he is safe by having stolen the silver belt buckles and coins, he overlooks the silver nitrate in the medical kit hypodermic which his third attempted victim shoves into his chest.
Cathy Maxwell (death); Bob Ames; un-named criminally insane girl (villain)
Synopsis
A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Pierce Draynor (guest, death); Anton Chatfield (villain, master of ceremonies, a vampire); Ralph Peters (villain, night watchman, a vampire); Celia Pronick (villain, movie cashier, a vampire); Paul Dunkel (villain, maintenance man, a vampire)
Synopsis
A television show about guessing the guest's occupation brings on a manufacturer of red ink. As the panel asks more questions of the guest, they begin to grow annoyed with the host, as the answers seem to dance around the idea that the guest may be a vampire. The host assures the panel that the man has a legitimate occupation, but they feel the host has double-crossed them. The host is delighted he has stumped the panel and reveals to the guest what he's won, a coffin, which surprises the guest. The panel descend upon him and drain his blood, relieved that he's not one of them.
The Vault-Keeper (host); Clint Ashton; Essie (death); Nick
Synopsis
A man uses a girl then dumps her and makes the mistake of seeking the help of a boat pilot to leave the country who used to love her before she killed herself. The boat pilot drops him off at an island that serves as a leper colony.
Freddy (death); Freddy's un-named wife; Charlie (crowd on-looker)
Synopsis
A mob at a military parade to honor wounded Korean War soldiers, whipped up by anti-communist sentiment, beats to death a blind war vet when he doesn't doff his hat to the flag during the parade.
A man marries a woman at Mardi Gras who wears a hag mask. She continually puts off his requests to remove her mask until he becomes agitated enough to bodily pull the mask off of her head whereupon he realizes she wasn't wearing a mask.