Between Good Omens “Season” 3 arriving next month and the Harry Potter reboot no one but HBO’s accountants asked for continuing forward, it’s as difficult as it’s ever been to separate inspiring creations from their less-than-inspiring creators. With J.K. Rowling serving as executive producer on the new Potter series, and with some of her extensive royalties being funneled into anti-trans rights campaigns, giving the show a pass certainly seems like an easy piece of moral calculus.

Neil Gaiman, meanwhile, stepped away from Good Omens in the wake of sexual assault allegations from nine women, complicating the fandom’s relationship with the franchise. That the show will enjoy a heavily truncated third season is more than Gaiman’s other projects got: a Graveyard Book movie, a new Coraline musical, and an Anansi Boys TV show were among the many productions axed, despite the latter two being pretty much set to go. But what do we do with the creations that already exist?

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For years, Tales from the Crypt has been a streaming Holy Grail. The HBO horror anthology series and its host, The Crypt Keeper — a punny puppeteered character who looked like a mummified corpse and talked like a Borscht Belt comedian — had an outsized influence on pop culture in the ‘90s, producing multiple big-screen spin-offs, loads of merchandise, and even a Crypt Keeper Christmas album in 1994. But after the final episode aired in 1996, the crypt was closed. And it stayed that way.

Even though the show aired on HBO, Tales from the Crypt has never been available for streaming on HBO Max, not even when it was still called HBO Go. All seven seasons of the show were released on DVD in the ‘00s, and a few were reissued in the format in the early 2010s, but no Blu-ray upgrade has emerged — yet.

So imagine our surprise when streaming service Shudder announced a few weeks back that it had secured the exclusive streaming rights to all seven seasons of Tales from the Crypt.