8 episodes • June 11, 1977 - August 6, 1977

Chilling anthology series where membership to the secret society, The Club of the Damned, is granted through telling horror stories.

8 episodes

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   Ghosts of Venice

   50 min • Jun 11, 1977 (49 years ago)

   In 19th-century Venice, a British gentleman befriends a mysterious woman whose presence seems almost otherworldly.

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   Countess Ilona

   50 min • Jun 18, 1977 (49 years ago)

   Four distinguished visitors arrive separately at the castle of the beautiful, widowed Countess Ilona, whom they haven't seen in many years. But she has surprises in store...

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   The Werewolf Reunion

   50 min • Jun 25, 1977 (49 years ago)

   Having lured the four men who ruined her life to her isolated castle in 'the remotest corner of that part of my country the prudent traveler never visits', Countess Ilona exacts a terrible revenge.

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   Mr Nightingale

   50 min • Jul 2, 1977 (49 years ago)

   A repressed, neurotic Englishman becomes obsessed by a mysterious beauty. Is she all she seems? Is he?

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   Lady Sybil

   50 min • Jul 9, 1977 (49 years ago)

   Could one of the two middle-aged sons of the famous Lady Sybil be a deranged serial killer — and, if so, which one?

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   Viktoria

   50 min • Jul 16, 1977 (49 years ago)

   An unhappy child in an affluent but dysfunctional Victorian household acquires both a sharp-eyed new governess and a new, unusually large doll, by which she's strangely fascinated.

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   Night of the Marionettes

   50 min • Jul 30, 1977 (49 years ago)

   A British literary critic and his family visit the Villa Diodati in Switzerland, where, decades earlier, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Events indicate that perhaps the famous story was not simply a work of imagination...

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   Dorabella

   50 min • Aug 6, 1977 (49 years ago)

   A young man describes his amorous encounter with, and escape from, a vampiric lady in Eastern Europe. But if this all happened so long ago, why does the storyteller still seem so youthful?