Mashable, Eli Roth’s Crypt TV Swap Spooky Stories With ‘Urban Legends’

It’s Halloween season, which means it’s time for digital content creators to release a new assortment of frightening videos. One of the companies getting in on this fun is Mashable, which has teamed up with Eli Roth’s Crypt TV for a series of horror vignettes titled Urban Legends.

Each of the four episodes in Urban Legends is based on a tall tale that has been passed down from campfire to campfire. “Under the Bed,” for example, retells the classic tale of a killer who imitates his victim’s dog by licking her. Another short, “The Call,” delivers a twist on the classic “the call is coming from inside the house” scenario.

Each urban legend can be viewed on Crypt TV’s Facebook page, but if you wish to watch them in a more stylish manner, you can head over to Mashable, where a snazzy landing page invites users into a haunted house and shares several more stories of “local lore” beyond the four that were adapted into videos.

For Crypt TV, this is a busy time of year, and Urban Legends gives it another platform on which it can weave its tales. “October is a great time to tell scary stories and we were so excited to partner with Mashable to bring some of the best urban legends to life,” said Roth in a press release. “I think telling urban legends in this short format allowed us to inject some extra scare and intrigue to these stories and bring them to a digital audience in a unique manner.”

On Mashable’s side of things, Urban Legends stands as one of the first project’s from Mashable Studios. The digital publication’s video production wing launched earlier this year.