Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.
Vladimir, the teenage son of a local rich man, falls madly in love with his new neighbor's daughter Zina competing for her affections along with a host of her other suitors.
A stranger comes to town with a bag full of gold and a test for everyone.
A man is about to be executed by the Inquisition. Is hope enough to save him?
A young Corsican boy defies local customs and dishonors his family when he turns in a bandit to police.
Intertwines multiple stories, including a framing device about a young man named Runevsky, and explores themes of obsession, the supernatural, and the line between reality and ima…
A psychological character study revolving around Luchkov, an aggressive, manipulative former military officer who lives for duels and social domination.
A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.
A narrator visits a French mental asylum where the 'soothing system' of patient-led care has been overthrown by a new, more severe method, only for the narrator to discover the 'd…
Follows the journey of a cursed, valuable diamond as it passes through the hands of various characters, revealing their greed, folly, and the dark allure of wealth. The narrative …
A government official's nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.
A nameless man insists on his sanity while confessing to murdering an old man because of his 'vulture-like' eye.
A man murders an antique dealer on Christmas Day to steal from him, only to be tormented by his own conscience, personified by a mysterious visitor who may be the Devil, forcing h…
Reclusive, cultured lawyer Mr Tomasz's solitary life is transformed by a blind orphan girl who moves in next door and her barrel organ, which he initially despises but comes to ch…
A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. T…
From Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron No. 40.'
From Ambrose Bierce's 'A Matter of Conscience.'
From Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed.'
From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'
From Ivan Turgenev's 'The Song of Triumphant Love.'
From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'
From William Wilkie Collins' 'A Terribly Strange Bed.'
From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'
From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'
From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'
Accused
The Terminal List
Nicholas Nickleby
Letter to Loretta
Back of Father
Crime Diaries: Night Out
Tokyo 23-ku Onna
2Brothers
