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) Tales from the Crypt (comics) Tales from the Crypt was an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955, producing 27 issues (the first issue with the title was #20, previously having been "International Comics" (#1-#5); "International Crime Patrol" (#6); "Crime Patrol" (#7-#16) and "The Crypt of Terror" (#17-#19) for a total of 46 issues in the series). Along with its sister titles, "The Haunt of Fear" and "The Vault of Horror", "Tales from the Crypt" was popular, but in the late 1940s and early 1950s comic books came under attack from parents, clergymen,