Elliot (James Frain) has discovered how to read the memories of the dead and to test this theory, he and his girlfriend Arianne (Siobhan Flynn) break into the crypt of a serial killer by the name of Valdemar Tymrak (Roger Ashton-Griffiths), who sold his soul to the devil. Not the best memories to use.

“Greetings, hack-riculture fans. I’ll be with you in a moment. I’ve just got to finish with the Artie-chokes. Come on, Artie, die already! Now, a little water and some fear-tilizer, and before you know it, I’ll be horror-vesting my own little field of screams. You didn’t know your pal the Crypt Keeper had a green thumb, did you? Well, I do. And the rest of me is pretty damn moldy, too! Which brings to mind tonight’s tale. It’s about a scientist who’s a bit of a scare-cropper himself. I call this one “Report From the Grave.””

Directed and written by William Malone (Feardotcom, House On Haunted Hill), this has Elliot become convinced that Arianne is stealing his work, so he kills her with Tymrak’s memories. But then he learns that she was on his side all along and now her spirit is being kept prisoner on the other side of death itself. And that’s how things end, with him unable to save her without bringing back the maniac. He kills himself and Arianne spends the rest of eternity tortured by Valdemar.

In the remake of House On Haunted Hill, Valdemar Tymrak is one of the guests who were invited to the house.

This episode is based on “Report from the Grave” from Vault of Horror #15. A new undertaker must go through an initiation to join the Vault-Keeper’s Club by digging up a recently departed member. It was written by Al Feldstein and WWilliamGaines and drawn by Jack Kamen.