Tales to Keep You Awake) is a Spanish horror anthology television series written and directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, produced by Televisión Española and broadcast on its flagship Primera Cadena network from 1966 to 1982.

Although the most important chapter of the first season was El asfalto (The Asphalt), winner of the Golden Nymph for the best script on the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

Then with the success of Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez and his second feature film, Who Can Kill a Child?, he would not get back to Historias para no dormir for years.

Due to low budgets and a rushed shooting schedule, the master videotapes suffered from visual damage, and the season was ultimately not a success.

[1] In 2005, as an attempt to relaunch the idea, a series of TV movies was shot under the title Películas para no dormir (Films to Keep You Awake).

These TV movies were produced by Telecinco, directed by renowned directors such as Mateo Gil, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Enrique Urbizu or Álex de la Iglesia and coordinated by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador himself, who also directed one of the movies, titled La culpa (Blame).