S01E01 Back Ward
The new chief psychiatrist at an old mental institution is haunted by Images from the hospital's cruel past.
Ghost Stories
S01E16: Sara's Friends
Sara works in a morgue, but she has lots of friends - on the gurney. But when a grifter tries to con her out of the morgue patient's valuables, he learns that Sara's friends will go above and beyond - the grave.
Overview
Ghost Stories is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1997 to 1998 on the cable channel FOX Family.
The show was narrated by Rip Torn and originally two episodes were presented back to back in an hour-long segment. However, towards the end of the series it was broken down into 30 minute episodes with just one story, most featuring a style similar to episodes of The Twilight Zone in which there would be a twist at the end.
There have been five DVD releases and is currently being shown in the United Kingdom on the TV channel Zone Horror.
Episodes
S01E02 Last Flight Out
A year after the plane crash that claimed her husband and child, a guilt ridden woman takes a night flight. Amid the storm-tossed flight, the woman is haunted by ghosts of her past.
S01E03 Step-Sister
When a young girl's mother remarries, she moves into her step-father's house, only to find herself haunted by the ghost of her jealous step-brother. But soon she discovers he's trying to warn her - about...
S01E04 You'll Always Be Mine
A young woman is stalked by the ghost of an obsessive suitor. After she's found murdered, the cop who failed to protect her is haunted by her cries for help from beyond the grave.
S01E05 Wake in Fear
An overworked intern is plagued by dreams in which he sees corpses being wheeled to the hospital morgue. They turn out to be premonitions of patients about to die the next day on the operating...
S01E06 Blood Money
A crooked lawman hounds an ex-con bank robber to determine the whereabouts of his buried loot. Upon retrieving the ill-gotten booty, the dirty cop discovers to his horror that the money's even dirtier - it's...
S01E07 Landscape of Lost Dreams
A couple returns to their honeymoon hotel in a last ditch effort to save their crumbling marriage. When the wife vanishes, the husband is suspected of killing her.
S01E08 Cold in the Grave
A divorced, embittered repairman murders a woman he picked up in the bar, stashes her body in an industrial refrigerator, and dumps it into the river.
S01E09 Personal Demons
A social worker pursuing a mentally unbalanced man who escaped from a halfway house discovers that her client is prodded to murderous actions by a malevolent demon.
S01E10 Cloistered
A lonely care-giver to the elderly falls for a man whom she believes is kept in his house by his domineering mother. But as their secret relationship grows, she is horrified to learn that the...
S01E11 All Night Diner
Abandoning her family, a woman drives out of town and stops at an all night diner. Inside, she is harassed by strange customers who know too much of her past, causing her to flee to...
S01E12 Beware the Muse
A tabloid reporter concocts a story about a long-dead serial killer, and unwittingly resurrects the killer's ghost.
S01E13 Blazes
A hero fireman, who is actually a compulsive arsonist, forges an unholy alliance with a mysterious homeless man with more than a passing interest in blazes.
S01E14 Cold Dark Space
A frenzied man finds himself trapped in a nightmarish hospital room. Surrounded by the dead from his past, it appears he's lost in a limbo world between life and death. We discover this is all...
S01E15 Green-Eyed Monster
A jealous husband becomes a green-eyed monster when he finds his wife giving undue attention to their backyard tree -- the very tree from which her ex-boyfriend committed suicide.
S01E16 Sara's Friends
Sara works in a morgue, but she has lots of friends - on the gurney. But when a grifter tries to con her out of the morgue patient's valuables, he learns that Sara's friends will...
S01E17 Beat the Reaper
A man on death row prays for a governor's pardon. One night he has a ghostly visitation from his dead partner, who shows him how to escape. But trapped in the bowels of the prison,...
S01E18 Conscience
A good man who has done some terrible things finds that his conscience has a unique way of giving himself away - whether he wants it or not.
S01E19 Sleep No More
A dream psychologist who takes on her patients' nightmares yearns to escape her work and insensitive husband. But when her nightmares start to invade her waking hours, she seeks refuge - into a peaceful dreamscape.
S01E20 Point Hope
A woman is saved from suicide by a mysterious lighthouse keeper with more on his mind than her salvation.
S01E21 The Stainless Blade
The famous magician Vance Delbert passes on the secret of his magic sword.
S01E22 The State of Grace
A lonely hospital orderly falls in love with a beautiful woman who just happens to be comatose. A la Sleeping Beauty she is reawakened by his feelings for her - yet only he alone can...
S01E23 Fatal Distraction
A frustrated writer is tempted to cheat on his wife by a mysterious woman he sees through his apartment window. But when he discovers that she is a ghost, it's too late -- and intends...
S01E25 Heartsick
The recipient of a heart transplant finds herself attracted to a stranger she sees on a train. Turns out she's being controlled by the ghost of the donor - the erstwhile lover of the man...
S01E26 At Death's Door
At the end of the Civil War, a grieving woman, whose husband is missing in action, awaits a doctor to care for her ill son. Surprisingly, the doctor himself is the Angel of Death, who...
S01E27 Underground
An attendant, working in a subterranean garage, finds himself trapped in a nightmarish underworld.
S01E28 It's Only a Movie
Joey Howell, jaded horror film fan, wins being a role of an extra in a horror film. But when he arrives on the set, Joey finds that things are not as they seem. The movie...
S01E29 Consumers
A young guy gets a job working the night shift at a supermarket frequented by the neighborhood elderly. Much to his horror, he discovers that they are shopping for young bodies to take over and...
S01E30 From the Ashes
An Asian man, a refugee from his homeland's murderous regime, is haunted by a trio of death squad enforcers - all of whom were executed years ago.
S01E31 Scream House
A man drags his wife back to the idealized neighborhood of his youth, but a trip to the old boardwalk fun house provides a terrifying glimpse into a past best forgotten.
S01E32 You'll Wake the Dead
A cruel young couple wage a campaign of noisy terror to evict an old lady from their duplex. The old lady dies, only to return to exact retribution from her tormentors.
S01E33 Resting Place
A grieving father refuses to accept the loss of his son, presumed dead from the bombing of a clinic in Africa. When the son miraculously returns home, his mother slowly begins to suspect the truth...
S01E34 The Inheritance
An African-American couple are terrorized in their new home by the ghost of a racist man. In the end, we discover the ghost's true motive - unable to rest in peace, he's been seeking forgiveness...
S01E35 Mirror, Mirror
A haggish old dowager is murdered by her put-upon niece and young boyfriend, only to return to haunt them in mirrors.
S01E36 The House That Spilled Tears
A slumlord, condemned to house arrest in her own decrepit property, is haunted by the specters of tenants who suffered and died in the building.
S01E37 Winner Takes All
A ruthless CEO gathers three of his executives for a most unusual poker game - the stakes of which prove more than anyone bargained for.
S01E38 Cabin Fever
Art Jones faked his death in a mountain blizzard and killed his climbing guide in the process, now awaiting a hefty insurance settlement. After months in isolation, Art is being tormented by the ghost of...
S01E39 Bless Me Father
A young disillusioned priest is sent to take over a dying parish, but finds his presence is resented by the older priest. The young priest soon finds himself haunted by the ghost of a girl...
S01E40 Erased
Locked in a stale marriage with her lackluster husband, a youth-obsessed woman starts to suspect that he is creating a young woman to replace her. She learns that the woman is actually the younger version...
S01E41 Going Down
The experience of having been trapped and held hostage in an elevator has left Kate Bradshaw claustrophobic and mute. In the end, Kate triumphs over her fears as well as her captor.
S01E42 Denial
After his wife's murderer is finally sentenced, a man starts to see visions of the crime, revealing a horrible truth that he's managed to hide from himself.
S01E43 Parting Shot
A paparazza seeks the ultimate shot - of the now dead celebrity at a funeral home. But after finally getting the picture, she finds that the ghost of the celebrity starts to relentlessly hound her.
S01E44 I Heard You Call My Name
After her young son drowns during a beach field trip, a school teacher is haunted, convinced her ghostly son wants to take her with him. But when she saves the life of another boy, she...
Cast
Rip Torn
The Narrator
