Bloody and gory stories

I can remember when I was little and I'd often visit my local comic book store when I still lived in Florida. I was really into horror movies when I was a kid, some of my favorites were the Friday the 13th movies, and zombie movies. Once when I was at the comic book store I ran across Tales from the Crypt comics, and remembering watching the television show, purchased some of them. I also remember going home and reading these comic and I remember how they literally scared the crap out of me. The pictures were so vivid and the story lines were very cleaver. Looking back, I remember how graphic the illustrations were as well. When I went through and read The Golden age part of From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, I came across on page 66 a discussion of a story in Tales from the Crypt #35 titled "Midnight Mess". It gave a description from this story and I was in shock to discover that I owned this copy of Tales from the Crypt when I was little and I remember how incredibly graphic this story was. I remember very well that at the end of the story, a group of vampires attack this man at a vampire bar and stick a spigot in his neck, filling their glasses with the mans blood as if it were beer. I also recall reading in From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, the publicity Tales from the Crypt got, due to the fact kids were reading these comics and the parents did not approve. We also have to remember that this was the 1950's so graphic depiction of horror and gore in comic books would have been a major problem in the "Leave it to Beaver" society if you will. I just find it interesting that parents had such a problem with these comic books then because they thought it would scare there kid; with that being said, I don't see how these kids weren't scared especially during that time and here I am in the late 90's early 2000's reading these comic and being scared (and shocked at the graphic depictions of death).