Tales from the Vienna Woods Tales from the Vienna Woods "Tales from the Vienna Woods" (, occasionally ) is a waltz by Johann Strauss II. Composed in 1868, , Op. 325, was one of six Viennese waltzes by Johann Strauss II which featured a virtuoso part for zither. The title of Strauss' dance recalls the folk music of the inhabitants of the Vienna Woods. The waltz's introduction is one of the longest he ever wrote for a waltz, 119 bars in the musical score. It starts in C major, intertwining with F major before gaining ascendancy in volume and mood, finishing with a long pause.
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"