Late Night Horror - Episode Guide

Based on a short story by Richard Matheson.

When Alexis, the beautiful wife of Dr Cheria falls mysteriously ill, the villagers believe she is the victim of a vampire. Their suspicions seem to be confirmed when she wakes screaming one night, blood streaming from two marks on her neck...

Based on a short story by Roald Dahl..

A radiologist in the hospital where William Pearl, Professor of Philosophy, lies stricken by an incurable disease has discovered a way of preserving the brain after the body has died.

Based on a short story by John Burke.

Ronnie's party is well under way, and his mother Alice is waiting for her husband Tom to get home from the office to help keep order. The doorbell goes, but it isn't Tom - it's Simon Potter, a rather strange little boy whom the others, particularly Ronnie, don't like, and persecute. But he does know some pretty unusual and horrifying variations on children's party games...

Based on a short story by H. Russell Wakefield.

For many years, Miss Pendleham has lived in a crumbling Elizabethan mansion. There are disquieting rumours that the house is haunted and some still more disquieting about Miss Pendleham...

Based on a short story by by Robert Aickman.

Three months after their marriage Phrynne and Gerald Banstead decide to stay at the Bell Inn, an ostensibly picturesque pub in East Anglia. As they arrive the whole place seems strangely deserted - the only sound they can hear is the desolate tolling of a church bell. Mr. and Mrs. Pascoe, who run the inn, and their only other guest, Commander Shotcroft, all seem desperately frightened of something vague and indefinable.

Based on a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Lady Sannox is one of the richest and most beautiful women in London. Her husband is many years her senior and is apparently quite content with the life she is leading. He seems more interested in cultivating his chrysanthemums - until Lady Sannox becomes the mistress of Douglas Stone, the eminent surgeon. Lord Sannox watches this affair, waiting to prove, perhaps, that he is not the meek, mild man his wife expects. He seeks his revenge, which is swift and terrible.