9.0/101 votes#1 - The Tale of the Twisted Claw
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/12/1992
In a twist of "The Monkey's Paw," two boys scare an old lady to death the night before Halloween just as the next night they receive a hand granting them wishes with consequences.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Chloe Brown
9.0/101 votes#2 - The Tale of the Hungry Hounds
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/19/1992
Two girls go to an attic where one of them tries on a uniform that belonged to a dead relative where her spirit lives on.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: N/A
9.0/101 votes#3 - The Tale of the Midnight Madness
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 6/26/1993
An old movie theater has two weeks before they close down for good. Ever since the multiplex came into town, the older movie theater has made less than six dollars per day. All of a sudden, the mysterious Dr. Vink appears and offers them a horror movie he made decades ago. He promises the owner and his staff that his movie would save them from closing down and it works! Dr. Vink's horror movie, Nosferatu: The Demon Vampire, starts attracting more than fifty people a night. The staff wonders what attracts people to this film and unfortunately they find out. The terrifying vampire jumps out of the movie and into the real world where it can have all the victims it wants. Now the staff must pull the plug on the movie before it gets out of hand!
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Chloe Brown
8.0/101 votes#4 - The Tale of the Captured Souls
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/3/1992
A family moves to a small house in the summer where they befriend a young man, where the family starts feeling weaker every day.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#5 - The Tale of the Whispering Walls
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 7/31/1993
While driving to a carnival, a babysitter and the two children she's looking after get lost. When their car breaks down, she goes inside a house to call for help. Trouble begins when she disappears and the kids soon find out that while they aren't the only ones in the house, they're the only ones that are alive.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Alison Lea Bingeman
8.0/101 votes#6 - The Tale of the Guardian's Curse
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/5/1994
A mummy is delivered to a museum owned by an archeologist. The mummy happens to be a dead pharaoh queen whose ancient potion and ring brings eternal life. The trouble begins when the mummy mysteriously disappears.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Chloe Brown
7.0/101 votes#7 - The Tale of the Final Wish
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/1993
Jill is a thirteen year old that still loves things her peers have grown out of, such as unicorns and fairy tales. One night she wishes that she could be in a fairy tale world forever. After her wish is granted, she finds that living in a fairy tale isn't as happy as she'd once imagined.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Chloe Brown
6.5/102 votes#8 - The Tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/17/1992
Dean, a troubled student, awakens an ancient secret hidden in the school.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Stephen Zoller
6.0/101 votes#9 - The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/24/1992
Jake, an inspiring young actor, is in a play where during rehearsals strange things start happening to him where it's only a matter of time before opening night.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#10 - The Tale of the Midnight Ride
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/1994
When a teenager moves to Sleepy Hollow, he learns that some of the folks believe in the old legend of the headless horseman. He soon learns that it's not just a legend.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#11 - The Tale of the Dangerous Soup
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/16/1994
Dr. Vink is back and now running his own restaraunt, The Wild Boar. After staff members continually decide to just quit at the drop of a hat, two employees soon discover why. Dr. Vink makes his famous soup with a special ingredient that he gets from his employees- FEAR. However, the two accidentally release the creature that gathers the fear and give it the ability to prey upon anyone.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Chloe Brown
4.7/103 votes#12 - The Tale of the Lonely Ghost
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/29/1992
A girl who desperately wants to be friends with her snotty cousin and her group of friends agrees to spend the night in the haunted house next door to become part of the group.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Naomi Janzen
4.0/101 votes#13 - The Tale of the Dark Dragon
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/24/1993
A teenager buys a potion from Sardo's magic shop hoping to make himself cooler, since he was in a accident that caused him to have to wear a brace on his leg. He soon finds himself changing, but also discovers that the potion has some very bad side effects.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Alison Lea Bingeman
3.3/103 votes#14 - The Tale of the Pinball Wizard
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/14/1992
Ross, a mischievous kid, goes to the mall where his old habits sometimes get the best of him.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: N/A
3.0/101 votes#15 - The Tale of the Hatching
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 9/25/1993
Two siblings, Jazz and Augie, are sent to boarding school while their parents are away. They immediately notice that the school is quite different and has some rather strange rules. For example, only calm, soothing tones are allowed inside the school and the students are only given the option to eat something called 'sponge' for meals daily. Jazz and Augie soon learn why the owners are so strange and have these odd rules in place.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Chloe Brown
2.0/101 votes#16 - The Tale of Cutter's Treasure (1)
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1994
When a teenager finds a spyglass locked in a treasure chest at the magic shop, the ghost of an evil pirate is released.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: N/A
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"The Tale of the Twisted Claw" is the best rated episode directed by D.J. MacHale. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Chloe Brown. It aired on 9/12/1992 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Tale of the Hungry Hounds".