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TALES FROM THE CRYPTKEEPER was an animated kid's show spin-off from the much better known TALES FROM THE CRYPT horror TV series. It ran over three seasons between 1993 and 1999, consisting of 39 episodes hosted by a green goblin-looking Cryptkeeper, voiced by the original John Kassir from CRYPT. Given that this is a family-friendly, gore-free show compared to the adult version, I found it surprisingly enjoyable when I sat through it this past week after it was uploaded to Amazon Prime.

The stories are fast and furious, typically involving child protagonists getting mixed up with various supernatural creatures or events. As is the norm in these shows, humans turn out to be the greatest monsters of all, and a lot of the beasts aren't so bad after all. Plenty of wince-inducing puns from the Cryptkeeper and his buddies, alongside workable animation and enthusiastic voice actors. I imagine teenagers today would be less than impressed as animation has got a lot more sophisticated these days, but as a child of the 1990s this brought back the era for me in an entertaining way.

Think 'Tales from the Crypt' animated. This series was Saturday morning cartoon and aired in ABC. Being on ABC and on Saturday morning kept the show from living up to the live action show. It wasn't able to be as scary or funny with those restrictions. On it's own, I'd say it was an okay show; but compared to the live action show, it does not measure up.

It definitely won't be scary, but if your a fan, it was great!

I remember watching this show fondly growing up. It brings back a lot of memories and it is a good show to watch if you love horror anthologies. While some episodes were really good like Gorilla's Paw or While The Cat's Away, some were less memorable like Dead Men Don't Jump or Too Cool For School. The animation isn't fantastic by any means but it does give nostalgia to viewers who grew up with the show. Like with other horror anthologies each episode does deal with morality tales and because of that we see character growth and development from the characters and we also relate to them in certain ways.

That said, this series was an animated version of Tales From The Crypt. If anyone enjoys this series I also recommend watching the live action version of this show as it is just as good and they have more episodes based on the same comic books that came out in the 50s.

This was an awesome cartoon! Great stories, quality animation and voice work, nice stories and monsters etc that did not talk down to us kids, it was great. Wooot wooooooooot!!