In Venice in the 1800's, a British gentlemen befriends a mysterious woman whose presence seems almost other worldly to him.
EP2 Countess IlonaJun 18, 1977
Four distinguished visitors arrive separately at the castle of the beautiful, widowed Countess Ilona, whom they have not seen for many years. But she has surprises in store for them...
EP3 The Werewolf ReunionJun 25, 1977
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", the Countess Ilona exacts a terrible revenge.
EP4 Mr. NightingaleJul 02, 1977
A repressed, neurotic Englishman (Jeremy Brett) becomes obsessed by a mysterious beauty (Lesley-Anne Down). Is she all she seems? Is he?
EP5 Lady SybilJul 09, 1977
Could one of the two middle-aged sons of the famous Lady Sybil be a deranged serial killer - and, if so, which one?
EP6 ViktoriaJul 16, 1977
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 is strangely fascinated.
EP7 Night of the MarionettesJul 30, 1977
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 just a work of imagination...
EP8 DorabellaAug 06, 1977
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?
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Synopsis
Anthology series in which a prospective “Club of the Damned” member is required to tell a horror story, their application for membership being judged on how frightening it was.