Tales From The Crypt Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottiness

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.

Tales From The Crypt British Edition

In 1954 the UK saw it's own short lived run of EC comic reprints. Two issues of Tales From The Crypt, one issue of The Haunt of Fear and supposedly one issue of The Vault of Horror though I have yet to find any images of Vault. Much like in american, horror comics in the UK were used as an easy target to blame for children behaving badly so that parents didn't have to face any hard truths about their own parenting ability. As always the government were quick to jump on the bandwagon so that they could appear to be fixing a complex problem but not having to actually do anything other than censoring harmless comic books with no evidence to back up any of the accusations against such material. EC comics were quickly banned in the UK and the few issues that were produced have become rather rare and almost forgotten.