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) entitled "Creepshow" followed, paying tribute to the tone, look, and feel of "Tales from the Crypt" and other EC comics, without directly adapting any of the stories. In 1989, the book was adapted into the HBO TV series "Tales from the Crypt", which features John Kassir as the Cryptkeeper and included comic book covers designed to look like the original 1950s covers by Mike Vosburg with at least one drawn by Shawn McManus. The following tales were used in HBO's "Tales from the Crypt" television series: "The Man Who Was Death" (issue #17), "Mute Witness to Murder" (#18), "Fatal Caper"