Tales from the Darkside
En amerikansk skräckantologiserie där tittaren får följa med på spökhistorier, science fiction-äventyr och läskiga, oförklarliga händelser. Det här programmet visa utan undertexter
The New Man
A recovering alcoholic is disturbed to find a young boy who shows up at his office claiming to be his son Jerry. The man is further angered when the boy shows up at his house.
I'll Give You A Million
Two old, rich men like to wager among themselves on trivial matters for huge amounts. One of them, Williams, offers his friend a million dollars for his immortal soul. Blaine accepts but discovers that he is dying of cancer.
Painkiller
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...
The Odds
Tommy Vale, a barroom bookie finds himself in a curious predicament: a man comes in who can't lose. As the story unravels, he finds out that his opponent is Lacey, a man who went broke gambling with Vale in the past.
Trick Or Treat
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.
Mookie And Pookie
Twin siblings, Mookie and Pookie, are extremely close. But Mookie has a terminal illness. Later the scientific genius Mookie successfully downloads his mind into the computer before he dies.
Slippage
A young ad-design artist begins to literally "slip" out of reality. Slowly but surely he seems to be fading out of existence: first his payroll checks disappear, then his high school has no records of his existence.
The Word Processor Of The Gods
Richard Hagstrom is dismayed with the way life has treated him (a rude son, a shrewish wife). His nephew Jonathan gives him a birthday present: a homemade word processor. Hagstrom soon discovers that anything he types into the processor becomes real.
A Case Of The Stubborns
In a backwoods community, a family is plagued by their grandfather... who refuses to acknowledge that he's dead.
Djinn, No Chaser
A couple inadvertently buys a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiable. Confined in the lamp for thousands of years and still trapped, he refuses to grant wishes.
All A Clone By The Telephone
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 The Cards
A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, finds herself stuck with a cursed deck of cards that foretell death for everyone she does a prediction for.
Anniversary Dinner
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.
Snip Snip
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.
The Tear Collector
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.
The Madness Room
Cathy Osborne brings her husband up to a previously-unknown room in their house and along with her friend Michael, relates the tale of how the room is the "madness room" from which no one has ever stayed the night...and survived.
If The Shoes Fit...
A fast-talking politician named Bo Gumbs who’s running for Governor. He learns his true colors while staying at a hotel for a meeting.
Levitation
A teenager enraptured with magicians goes to a flee-bitten circus to seek out one of the greatest ever: Kharma. However, Kharma now does cheap magic for the crowds, and none of the great illusions the teenager believed he was capable of.
It All Comes Out In The Wash
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 an unpleasant price to pay.
Bigalow'S Last Smoke
Mr. Bigalow, a lifelong cigarette smoker, wakes up to find that his windows have bars on them and his door is sealed shut. A mysterious figure appears on Bigalow's television, informing him that he will quit smoking.
The False Prophet
Cassie Pines is a woman traveling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves...e everything. She comes into a diner with a most unusual mechanical fortune teller named Horace X.
