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) began experimenting with horror tales in their crime titles. "Tales from the Crypt" traces its origin to a Feldstein story, "Return from the Grave!", in EC's "Crime Patrol" (#15, December 1949/January 1950) with the Crypt-Keeper making his debut as host. Issue #16 featured more horror tales than crime stories, and, with issue #17, the title changed from "Crime Patrol" to "The Crypt of Terror". Due to an attempt to save money on second-class postage permits, the numbering did not change with the title and continued as "The Crypt of Terror" for the next two issues. "Tales from the Crypt" debuted