Tales From The Crypt issue 36 featured a vampire story called Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottiness about a taxi driver on night shift looking for a fare whilst fearful of the recent reports of murders in the city, bodies drained of blood and rumour that a vampire is on the loose. The cover of this issue featured art based on this story and was one of the more memorable of the comics run. Yet the story was never adapted into the HBO series of the 1990s (or 70s Amicus movies). It did however get a loose adaptation in the cartoon spin off, Tales From The Cryptkeeper. Renamed simple fare Tonight, this version focused on two young girls investigating reports of a vampire in the area whilst still keeping the Taxi driver and vampire hunter from the comic story involved.
A more adult, but still somewhat loose adaptation was part of the Tales From The Crypt Radio Series of the early 2000s which served as an 8th season of the HBO show with John Kassir returning to voice the Cryptkeeper and the Danny Elfman score used. In this version Keith David voices the vampire hunter, picked up by an immigrant new to America working as the taxi driver and played somewhat tongue in cheek.
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