Tales from the Vienna Woods (play) Tales from the Vienna Woods (play) Tales from the Vienna Woods (, 1931) is a play by Austro-Hungarian writer Ödön von Horváth. It was premièred in Berlin in 1931 and has been filmed several times. Before the première, the German writer and playwright, Carl Zuckmayer nominated the play for the Kleist Prize, which it won, the most significant literary award of the Weimar Republic. The play's title is a reference to the waltz "Tales from the Vienna Woods" by Johann Strauss II. Horváth's play premièred at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin. Written in the late 1920s during the period of catastrophic
Tales from the Crypt (comics) from using the words "terror" and "horror" in titles, for example, and forbidden from depicting zombies, werewolves, and other gruesome characters and outré horror fiction trappings. Gaines was fed up; he believed his titles were being specifically targeted and realized they were doomed to future failure. He threw in the towel, canceling "Tales from the Crypt" and its companion titles in September 1954. Since an issue of "The Crypt of Terror" had already been produced, it was published as the final issue of "Tales from the Crypt", February/March 1955. "Tales from the Crypt" has been reprinted on numerous occasions. Ballantine