origin story "Lower Berth!" (#33) which was illustrated by Davis. Issue #38 was one of two covers from EC's horror comics censored prior to publication. While The Vault of Horror cover for issue #32 was restored in Russ Cochran's EC Library reprints, the Tales from the Crypt cover remained censored. "Kamen's Kalamity" (#31) starred many members of the EC staff, including Gaines, Feldstein and the story's artist, Kamen. Ingels, Davis and Craig also made cameo appearances in the story in single panels which they drew themselves. Influences and adaptations As with the other EC comics edited by Feldstein, the stories in this comic were primarily based on Gaines using existing horror stories and films to develop "springboards" from which he and Feldstein could launch new stories. Specific story influences that have been identified include the following: "Death Must Come" (issue 17): Ralph Murphy's The Man in Half Moon Street "The Maestro's Hand" (issue 18): Robert Florey's The Beast with Five Fingers "The Thing from the Sea" (issue 20): F. Marion Crawford's "The Upper Berth" "Rx Death" (issue 20): Arthur Machen's "The Novel of the White Powder" "Impending Doom" (issue 20): W. F. Harvey's "August Heat" "Reflection of Death" (issue 23): H. P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider" "The Living Death" (issue 24): Edgar Allan Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" "Judy, You're Not Yourself Tonight" (issue 25): H. P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" "Loved to Death" (issue 25): John Collier's "The Chaser" "Grounds... for Horror!" (issue 29) – John Collier's "Thus I Refute Beelzy" "A Hollywood Ending" (issue 30): H. P. Lovecraft's "Cool Air" "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" (issue 34): H. P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider" "Dead Right!" (issue 37): Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "The Room in the Dragon Volant" "Last Laugh" (issue 38): David H. Keller's "The Doorbell" "Shadow of Death" (issue 39): Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr Anecdotes from Bennett Cerf's Try and Stop Me were sources for stories, including "House of Horror" (issue 21), "Death Suited Him!" (issue 21) and "Death's Turn!" (issue 22). After their unauthorized adaptation of one of Ray Bradbury's stories in another magazine, Bradbury contacted EC about their plagiarism of his work. They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction. These official adaptations include: "There Was an Old Woman" (issue 34) "The Handler" (issue 36) The Crypt-Keeper Although EC's horror stable consisted of three separate