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 Darkside to initial inquiries about the possibilities of a "Creepshow" series. Because Warner Bros. owned certain aspects of "Creepshow", Laurel Entertainment, which produced the film, opted to take their potential series into a similar, yet separate, direction, including changing the name to "Tales from the Darkside". The new name reflected "Creepshow"s focus, that of a live-action EC-based horror comic book of the 1950s like "Tales from the Crypt" or "The Vault of Horror", though the series would not carry the trappings of a comic as "Creepshow" did. Some episodes of the series were written by or adapted from the works of