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Halloween Nights is also known as Crypt Tales Music of the Crypt Keeper The Crypt Keeper is the host for a TV series known as Tales From The Crypt, a program that was produced in the United States from 1989 through 1996. Functioning as the emcee for the series, The Crypt Keeper helped to set the mood and tone for the current weekly episode by including a teaser about the action that was shortly to take place. The use of double entendre and sometimes corny plays on words created a personality for the Crypt Keeper that helped to popularize the character and helped the series to achieve worldwide fame. Like any good host, the Crypt Keeper would welcome visitors to the crypt and entertain viewers with short monologues that would function as a lead in to the current weekβs episode. From time to time throughout the episode, the Crypt Keeper would return to offer short commentaries or to prepare the audience for a commercial break. This approach was similar to a couple of other horror anthology series on the air at the time. But the Crypt Keeper was a unique twist on the theme. While the use of human actors to introduce segments of a horror based television series date back to the early years of television, the Crypt Keeper is not a human. In fact, the Crypt Keeper is a puppet. In order to create the movement and facial expressions that gave the Keeper so much appeal, several puppeteers work together to manage the overall effect. A team of four puppeteers focus on the creation