Five spine-chilling short horror and ghost stories, collected for your terror.
Pam Ferris - recently in the new Larkin series on BBC TV currently in Oct 2021 is amongst the cast of these delightful tales.
Figures
As soon as Ann saw the house she knew it had to be hers. Its past turns out to be part of her future. So all she has to do is sit in the upstairs room - kept locked for so long - and wait...
Stars Anna Massey as Ann, Blain Fairman as Ralph Symons, Jill Lidstone as Rebecca Symons and Jon Strickland as Peter Fuller. Directed by Ian Cotterell.
Mrs M
Mrs Meadowsweet offers visitors to her country guesthouse a truly carefree holiday. Everybody is so happy. A little vague perhaps, but certainly happy.
Newcomers Madge and Arthur are suspicious, but can Mrs M convert them?
Stars Rosemary Leach as Mrs Meadowsweet, Anne Jameson as Madge and Roger Hume as Arthur.
Written by David Campton. Directed by Peter Windows at BBC Birmingham.
Origami
When Mr Shimojo takes a room in Helen Bestall's house, no one is prepared for the sequence of horrifying events which his presence seems to generate...
Jill Hyem's tale of the supernatural stars Sean Barrett as Mr Shimojo, Carole Boyd as Helen Bestall, Christopher Scoular as Peter Trent and Helen Worth as Lucy Bestall.
Pronunciation adviser: Masatoshi Tobia. Directed by Kay Patrick at BBC Manchester.
Dracula in White
Prisoners up and down the country seem to be disappearing mysteriously from Her Majesty's prisons.
Fearing they've been used as guinea-pigs in some unspeakable experiments, TV journalist Joanna sets out on a perilous course to verify her worst suspicions...
Peter Redgrove's chilling drama stars Maggie McCarthy as Joanna, Benjamin Whitrow as Dr Exeter-White and Jerold Wells as Sam Mellish. Directed at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.
Witch Water Green
Barbara Tate and her baby girl are on their own in their new home - a converted mill - deep in the country. The move's been a strain as she's lonely and the baby's unsettled.
But there's another reason for the disquiet she feels... somewhere.
Don Webb's chilling drama stars Pam Ferris as Barbara Tate. With Jenny Lee as Dr Jane Rayner, Nigel Anthony as the Reverend Roy Brown, Brian Southwood as Johnny Goad and Kate Lee as Wendy Williams. Directed at BBC Manchester by Tony Cliff.
