Critchit

Critchit

Background

Arthur Critchit is a resident of England. He is engaged to Eleanor.

During the events of The Vault of Horror (1973) played by Terry-Thomas

Rogers gets into an elevator and presses the button to go down to the ground floor. The door opens and Maitland gets inside of the elevator and it continues downward. This continues as Sebastian, Critchit and Moore get on the elevator. They become startled when it stops at the subbasement level and the door opens into a room with five chairs surrounding a table with bottles of liquor and glasses. They decide to sit at the table and Critchit tells them about a dream he had.

Critchit is having dinner with Wilson when he tells him that he is engaged to Eleanor. At their home, Critchit criticizes Eleanor when he notices she moved his magazine rack and tells her there is a place for everything and everything has a place. In the morning after his shower, Critchit complains when he finds out Eleanor has moved her clothes to her side of the bed and his clothes to his side of the bed. He takes her to his workshop and shows her how he has all of his tools neatly organized by size, length, thread, etc. In the evening, Critchit tells Eleanor he will cook for her. He goes into the kitchen to cook and as he looks for some tomatoes, he finds there aren't any fresh ones or canned ones. He yells at Eleanor to come into the kitchen and shows her a laminated list he has on the inside doors of the cupboard which has the names of everything within the cupboard along with count. In the morning, Critchit comes into the kitchen and finds it organized and correct and Eleanor tells him she worked all night on it. He returns home and finds his workshop a mess and starts screaming at Eleanor asking her if she can do anything neatly over and over until she screams and puts the claw of a hammer into his head, killing Critchit.

After everyone has told their dream or nightmare, Sebastian wonders if their dreams are a warning of what may happen, but Critchit thinks it is nonsense. The elevator door opens, but instead of an elevator, it leads to a graveyard. The five men walk out into the graveyard and disappear one by one until Sebastian is the last one and he realizes that due to their evil deeds they will be forced to relay their stories for eternity.