Tales from the Darkside

A wrestler seeking one great opponent finds himself tricked into fighting a demon from Hell.

A mother tries to get a reprieve from her noisy drums-practicing son by making a deal with an ammonia-seeking alien.

A babysitter is called in to take care of a sick boy. As a game, the two make up a pretend creature out of household parts, one that eats sounds. The creature comes to life, sucking the sound and the life out of everything in the house.

Janice, a young mother, swears to a social worker, Trudy, that her husband Robert kidnapped their son Bobby six months ago and she hasn't seen either of them since. Trudy agrees to find the father and son, but discovers that everything isn't what she was led to believe.

On her deathbed, Jamie's great grandmother tells him the tale of a Celtic demon, the Cutty Black Sow, that comes to claim the soul of anyone dying that night, and Jamie vows to protect her soul from the beast.

Sarah McBride is hired by a Puritan museum but ends up mysteriously going back in time where she is forced to work as a near slave in the past.

Screenwriter Tom Dash unwittingly makes a deal with the Devil and finds he must get out of it by finding a new victim or offer up his soul.

Betsy, an overweight woman, receives an anonymous package with an earpiece that will supposedly help her diet. It transmits the "voices" of her food as is being eaten, but Betsy still has problems and the next gift is a pair of glasses that let her "see" her food as well...

Michael, a heartless collection agent, finds out that Jeanette doesn't quite understand the rules of going into debt, and has some unpleasant problems as a result.

Much to his parents' frustration, a spoiled young boy, Seymour, is declared the High Lama by a group of monks.

A normal, everyday, plain-as-day man is plagued by a demon, the Yattering, but seems oblivious to its mischief.

A mobster who has finally defeated his old rival hires a reluctant puppeteer to string up his rival and make it dance for him. The mobster is unaware that puppet and puppeteer both have agendas of their own...

Sybil, a woman on the verge of death, is obsessed weith the thought that after she dies her soul will dwell within a moth, and she begs her mother to hold the moth until she can be restored to life.

Despite the discouragement of his friend, a middle-aged photographer, Algernon, tries to captures spirits on film.

A woman who lives with mannequins because she is unable to deal with real people gets a rude awakening.

An Egyptologist working on a sarcophogus ignores a curse and meets a horrific fate when he ignores it.

Irene and Jim discover that a new radio they buy lets them overhear the neighbors, but Irene soon turns paranoid as she wonders whether they can hear her.

When Harry Carson has a heart attack, an angel and a devil fight for who will get his soul and it's up to Harry to make the right choice.

Anna Belle's plot to murder her husband to gain his money backfires with unpleasant results.

A shoemaker's apprentice discovers a strange power when he finds he can step into other peoples' lives simply by putting on their shoes.

Two long-lived witches, Elizabeth and Mary, vie once more over an amulet in the modern day that they agreed to share hundreds of years ago.

Robert, a lonely divorced man, fixated on a mannequin, but the question soon becomes - is the mannequin alive?

A crooked tycoon makes a deal with the Devil in return for power and wealth.

Laura, a desperate woman, tries to get an apartment by herself but is forced to take in Ram, an immigrant from Calcutta. When Ram dies partly due to her involvement, Laura finds that she has inherited an entire family of ghostly Hindus.

A robber accidentally brings a mannequin to life - its gaze turns him into a statue. The now-living mannequin flees into the night, unaware of her powers or the harm she can bring.

A couple "entertain" their children on Christmas Eve with a horrific tale of a creature known as the "Grither," but the joke is soon on them.

Valeria is a saint - literally - and finds it more then she can bear. She seeks out a way to fall from Grace but is unable to do so no matter how hard she tries.

Ruby Cuzzins, a New Orleans baker, sells "magic" cookies and gives unscrupulous Henry adman a sample of her wares. Convinced, Henry tries to get her to go into business with him but gets his comeuppance when she refuses.

A kibbitzing mother, Pearl, warns her unlistening family but her warnings start to come true.

Audrey Webster is concerned about her reclusive mother, but when she pursues the matter discovers exactly why her mother stays away from others, and what awaits Audrey on her own upcoming wedding night.

A little girl, Audrey, discovers she can control her family by manipulating her doll family, the Geezenstacks, within her dollhouse.

A young couple purchases the home of a long deceased feminist, and they soon pay the price when they are tormented by her ghost.

A young girl develops a talent for seeing the fate of those about to die and develops the habit of saying "Goodbye" to them when she does, and her family grows increasingly upset as a result.

A family finds themselves cursed because of their great grandfather killing his wife, and the curse won't die until they all die too and there is no one else to carry on his name.

The family of a dead preacher show up for a reading of the will but discovers he left them nothing specific. Rather, he warns them on his video-taped will that he will send them a sign.

Dr. Carrol reluctantly makes a late-night house call to treat Mrs. Alcott's leg injury. He discovers that Edmund and Marie Alcott are vampires, and that Edmund intends to keep him imprisoned. However, Marie disagrees with Edmund's plans.

Stacey, a young woman on her way home from college for the summer, boards a train full of odd and bizarre mannered passengers. It soon becomes clear that this trip will end up being the ride of her life.

A group of people find themselves trapped in a scenario with Otto, only to discover that he is a stagehand and they are a theater group all trapped in his dream.

Englebert Ames, an astronomer, is watching Hailey's Comet and is in for a shock when Sir Edmond Hailey himself arrives - he's been riding "his" comet all these years trying to elude Sarah, the woman pursuing him out of obsessed love.

A little boy named Timmy tries to convince his mother and mean stepfather, that there are horrific creatures in his room, which includes a tentaclad monster under his bed, a boogeyman, a saw, and a witch. Of course his parents don't think he's telling the truth, until it's too late.

A artist named Kate discovers that she under unknown circumstances, has the psychic ability to live backwards, but things soon turn out for the worse when she realizes it's beyond her control.

Two occultists are offered $50,000 if they can rid a girl of the multiple demons possessing her, but they soon find themselves in over their heads.

As Billy is waiting to be executed in the electric chair, he relates the bizarre tale of how he came to be in his predicament at the hands of an attractive woman.

An impressionist, "Mr. Personalities," is brought in by the government to try to help them communicate with an alien. Mr. Personalities is at first stumped but finally makes "contact." The alien departs and Mr. Personalities is depressed...until the alien returns for him.

An elderly woman's family considers committing her to a retirement community, but grandma has one last wish that will help the family understand exactly what she goes through.

Carl Gropper, a greedy developer, stumbles upon a Chinese laundry that offers a unique service - it can "wash out" guilt. Carl employs their services but soon finds there is a unpleasant price to pay.

A fast-talking politician named Bo Gumbs whose running for Governor. He learns his true colors while staying at a hotel for a meeting.

Prudence is a young woman who can't stop crying, but finds a peculiar way to make a profit when she meets Ambrose Cavender, a man who collects tears.

Joan, a English actress subletting in New York City, is tormented by a neighbor's phone that won't stop ringing.

A warlock and a witch get into a battle over a $10 million lottery ticket when each claims that the spirits gave them the winning number.

A young girl fleeing her boyfriend finds herself in a small country home with a genial older couple. They take pity on her and invite her in, and even invite her to their special anniversary dinner.

A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, finds herself stuck with a cursed deck of cards that foretell death for everyone she does a prediction for.

Leon, a hapless TV writer, buys an answering machine that has a mind of its own - it initially helps him out by providing him with new material, but Leon soon finds that it's taking over his life.

In a backwoods community, a family is plagued by their grandpa... who refuses to acknowledge that he's dead.

A student takes a room with an abrupt, somewhat rude anthropology professor. He instructs her never to open the small door in the back of her closet, but she hears strange noises and can't resist investigating.

Twin siblings, Mookie and Pookie, are extremely close. But Mookie has a terminal illness. Later the scientific genius Mookie succesfully downloads his mind into the computer before he dies. But now that he's in there Pookie must convince her parents not to pull the plug.

Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It's not until later that Harvey finds the price he must pay...

A miser taunts his neighbors by daring them to send their children in to find their debt records inside of his "haunted house," but he gets some unusual late-night visitors.