Spine Chillers (1980)

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  • BBC One
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1x1
The Red Room
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The story begins with the narrator, who’s standing by a fire in an unknown room, confidently announcing to a couple of rather creepy elderly people that he’s never seen a ghost and is .. show full overview
1x2
The Yellow Cat
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"The Yellow Cat" by Michael Joseph, told by John Woodvine.
1x3
The Music on the Hill
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Feisty Edwardian bride Sylvia has triumphed against the odds in her society marriage, but gradually becomes aware of a strange and threatening presence in the woods...
1x4
The Mezzotint
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Mr. Williams, the curator of a university art museum (implied to be Oxford) purchases a mezzotint from an art dealer. The painting changes each time Mr. Williams and the colleagues he .. show full overview
1x5
The Treasure in the Forest
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Evans and Hooker happened to overhear the general location of a jungle treasure. While the two saw this as an opportunity those who buried the treasure knew something the treasure hunters did not.
1x6
The Devil's Ape
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'... and then something happened. Something we couldn't see, but felt - something that made us afraid with a sweating fear. Some- body - something - came into the room...'
1x7
Sredni-Vashtar
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'Conradin was dreadfully afraid of the lithe, sharp-fanged pole ferret, but it was his most treasured possession. Its very presence in the tool shed was a secret and fearful joy ...'
1x8
A School Story
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Two men are discussing the folklore of the private schools they attended. One tells of a Latin teacher named Mr. Sampson who kept a Byzantine coin that he would show his students. The .. show full overview
1x9
In the Avu Observatory
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1x10
The Running Companion
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For years now, Mr Adamson 's hatred had been with him, not only when he ran, but all day, and often at night, too. Sometimes in his dreams it seemed to him that his running companion, his hatred, stood just behind him, or at his very elbow.
1x11
The Penance
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In hunting to death a small tabby cat, Octavian had done a thing of which he scarcely approved himself. But Octavian kept chickens -at least he kept some of them; others vanished, leaving only a few bloodstained feathers to mark their going.
1x12
The Well
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She dropped a stone down the well, and said ' Fancy being where that is now, clutching at the slimy sides, with water filling your mouth, looking up to the little patch of sky above.
1x13
The Stolen Bacillus
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The bacteriologist took up a sealed tube. 'Here is the living thing - bottled cholera. It is a deadly thing to have in your possession.'
1x14
The Sin of Omission
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"A flat head rose up, and small, watery-blue eyes glittered with malevolent intent, while jaws opened to their fullest extent, and Mr Faversham was permitted to view a pink-lined cavern that was equipped with two yellow, pointed fangs..."
1x15
Gabriel-Ernest
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The boy laughed, a laugh in which the snarl had nearly driven out the chuckle, and then plunged out of view into a yielding tangle of weed and fern. 'What an extraordinary wild animal' thought Van Cheele.
1x16
The Diary of Mr Poynter
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There was about it so horrible an air of menace that, moaning with fear, he rushed from the room.
1x17
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
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They found him lying dead in a mangrove swamp with one of these orchids crushed up under his body. Maybe that plant cost him his life to obtain.
1x2
More Spinned Against
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Tells of how the legendary Arachne finds herself in the clutches of a spider-obsessed collector and of the deal she makes with the collector's wife Lydia.
1x18
The Hounds of Fate
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'What do the folk around here say about me?' asked Stoner. 'They be bitter agen you, mortal bitter. Aye, 'tis a sad business, a sad business.'
1x19
Jerry Bundler
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'My father used to declare that the last time he slept here, the ghost of Jerry Bundler lowered itself from the top of his bed and tried to strangle him.'