A gold digging waitress goes to a fortune teller who predicts that by the end of the day her boss will fire her and she will land a new job. When the prediction becomes reality, she goes back for more. The fortune teller predicts that she will marry a man who will inherit a fortune then die. She gets the money first and when she tells her husband to kiss off, he stabs her to death and ends up in the hot seat.

Two rival long time gamblers meet up in a small town to have one last duel.

An unscrupulous plantation owner looks to raise some cash to develop a worthless plot of inherited land by wooing a beautiful heiress to an island and using voodoo to make her his wife.

Reed is a hotshot insurance agent who decides to kill his stubborn boss and marry his wife. The plan works until Reed's boss who happens to be Gloria's ex-husband arrives with pictures he has taken of the murder and blackmails Reed.

Mary Jo is a young slave girl on a farm. One day while escaping to the fields she has a vision that a scarecrow comes to save her from the cruel couple. When her master discovers the identity of her new boyfriend, he decides to disguise himself as the man in straw.

A ventriloquist seeks out his old hero, Ingels, who he always admired. He soon meets up with his ventriloquist dummy Morty and discovers a shocking secret.

Bobby is an orphaned teenager who goes to live with his uncle Ezra. Ezra is a mortuary director who is very grumpy. One day he decides to fill his new casket by killing Bobby. Bobby is too tall to fit in it so he cuts off his feet but he soon regrets it.

Jim Korman is a cartoonist for Tales From The Crypt. He has talent for creating horrible creatures - they are all inspired by his harassing wife. Little does he know that his creations are coming to life and creating havoc. A female detective pursues the creator and suddenly falls for him. Korman decides to finally take his wife out of the picture.

Enoch is a two-faced man at a sideshow carnival. One day a new attraction arrives—a 4 century old mummy. When the owner learns that the mummy is not only ripped off but cursed, he swipes the jewels off the mummy but soon he regrets it.

This episode also features the birth of The Cryptkeeper.

A woman witnesses a man slaughter his wife. The man lives across the street from her. When her husband calls their doctor, she's even more horrorfied to learn that the doctor is also the killer.

Horton Rivers is an arrogant television tabloid host. He is trying to get big ratings and decides to take his crew through a haunted house. The house is rumored to be haunted by an old woman who killed a number of men. Soon strange things start happening. Someone or something is stalking Horton and his camera crew. The ratings could take him to the top or to the bottom.

Siamese twins, the timid and kind-hearted Frank and the other, reckless and sadistic Eddie, must make a decision on whether or not to allow an experimental surgery to have them separated, even though one of them doesn't want to be split from the other.

Theodore is a 12 year old orphan who gets adopted by an unusual couple who lock him up in the attic. They are always working and he never gets to go and have some fun. Little does he know that his new parents harbor a dark secret. Little do they know he harbors a secret of his own.

A gunman being is chased down by another quickdrawing gunslinger in an old abandoned western town. The gunman wins the duel but he soon learns a new meaning to the phrase ""ghost town"" as the spirits of all his victims come back to haunt him.

A courageous drag racer challenges a cop who used to be a racer. When the cop refuses, the racer decides to make him change his mind and kidnaps his teenage daughter. Iceman proves that he hasn't lost his talent by tricking the racer into changing the course sending him to his doom.