“Oh… Hi there fright fiends. How do you like my rancid rendering? Not bad for an amateur. Hopefully it will give you an inkling of what tonight’s fungusy photo-play is about because long before my eerie offerings appeared on your silver screen, they were a magazine called, get a load of this, Tales From the Crypt. So tonight, let’s take a behind the screams look at a struggling artist named Jim Korman who one day got a little too drawn into his work.”

Jim Korman (Harry Anderson) is dealing with his wife Mildred (Colleen Camp) to get over his inability to give her a baby and start taking fertility pills which give him new creative energy. Then characters right from his comic book start killing people, which brings Officer Lorelei Phelps (Cynthia Gibb) into his life, as she believes that it’s his fault after a monster that looks like a reptile he drew saves her from a rapist.

This episode was directed by Rowdy Herrington, who also made Striking Distance and Roadhouse. It was written by Terry Black, who wrote five episodes of the series and Dead Heat as well as Steven Dodd, who gets a credit on every episode.

The art in this episode is from Mike Vosberg, who drew all of the covers for the comic in the series.

This is based on “Kamen’s Kalamity!,” a story that ran in Tales from the Crypt #31. It’s nothing like what’s in this TV show, as it’s a meta story about Al Feldstein and William Gaines — who wrote it — abusing Jack Kamen — who drew it — for being too nice.