Dark Fantasy — 1942

Two couples see the year in at the old Cabot house, where a century earlier Jeremiah Cabot swore he would be back -- and one of the party starts behaving like a man of 1841.

A painter benighted in a haunted canyon is guided out by something that means him well; the forty-thousand-year-old bones found there stay friendly only while they are left where they lie.

A woman takes a night clerk's job in an office that pays a full week's wages on her first shift and is empty when she comes back by daylight; the year the building is living in is not hers.

Shut in the Tower of London overnight, a man watches a procession that should not exist and promises to come back if he is let out alive; by daylight he has talked himself out of believing any of it, and never returns.

Dolores's fiance is told to keep away from the lily pond and drowns in it; a man with perfect eyesight goes blind; and Aunt Wanna, cut out of a Haitian husband's will, turns out to have brought more than money home with her.

Treasure hunters after two hundred years of sunken gold find a stranger writing on a slate in the locked captain's cabin, with a skull for a face, and they take his warning for superstition.

A couple bring their small son to an island friend who has been studying lycanthropy since his own boy died; what killed young Bill is still on the island, and it gets loose.

Harvey Winstead wants a divorce from his medium wife Laura, who will not give one up while she is alive; the crash that kills her leaves her rival on the operating table -- and speaking in Laura's voice.

The country's favourite soprano is taken off her own aeroplane by a gorilla that sings opera in her former fiance's voice, and delivered to the doctor who put it there.

An engineer of genius takes a child's modelling clay, given to him as a joke, and turns it into something to be buried with; after the funeral the grave goods start turning up, and the satchel is not empty.

A fortune teller tells three circus acrobats to carry a white feather spotted with dove's blood or hang for it; the feathers go astray one by one, and the police read Flyer Sampson's fall as murder.

An old man who will only accept a lift from a car carrying a redhead has been waiting on America's first superhighway a long time; the stagecoach he drove was robbed by a red-haired man.

Three ships have vanished from the same stretch of ocean, and the vessel sent to look for them is boarded by an Atlantean who wants its metal too.

A pilot hired to collect a package crash-lands in a three-day sandstorm and wakes in a village no white man goes to, where a spirit is loose and the leopards are fed on strangers.

A Vermont dairy farmer dreams the next day in enough detail to change it, and remembers everything about the dream except the three o'clock flight he was supposed to be on.

All that survives is the trailer announcer Keith Painton read the week before: a witch doctor in the Ecuadorean jungle brews a poison for an enemy who has shown him no mercy.

An inventor beaten to the patent office is married anyway; the mail sack they turn up in the attic holds an unopened letter, written fifty-odd years earlier, that ruined the same match once already.

Truman Davis has held the golf title five years running, and the challenger who finally takes it off him is shot dead as the trophy is handed over; the woman who fired is remembering a previous life on a planet where the tournament is still running.

A man inherits a boarded-up mansion and is walked into it by an innkeeper who should be dead and a man already in his coffin; two caskets are waiting downstairs with the new owners' names on the plates.

A voice out of nowhere -- his great-grandfather's -- keeps handing Alan Blaine good advice, and he takes it until the day it tells him not to go after the woman who has just jilted him; opium and a dream carry him the rest of the way.

Carl Fisher, thirty years a scoundrel, argues to the devil's face that circumstances made him one, and talks his way into a single day in which he must do no wrong at all.

Julius has admired Stefan Hamlyn since they were boys -- through Oxford, through surgery together -- and is the one man Stefan tells what he means to do; the friend who narrates the story is also the man who killed him, and the brain outlives them both.

A man wakes to find his leg being taken off by a 'doctor' in an asylum that shut years ago -- and the surgeon is the employer he ruined; another former employee is on her way in.

The series signed off with a live restaging of its fourth episode, 'The Demon Tree' -- the strangling oak of Barlow Forest and the family it has been waiting for.