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The Best Episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each...

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  1. 8.9/10(1.2k votes)

    #1 - The Tale of the Dream Girl

    S3:E10

    A teenager thinks he's just met the girl of his dreams when he puts on a mysterious ring that won't come off. Trouble begins when he learns that years ago she was killed in a car accident, and he realizes she wants to lure him to an early grave.

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    Director:David Winning
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #2 - The Tale of the Dead Man's Float

    S5:E1

    Zeke is good at chemistry, but not at girls. When he befriends one, she teaches him how to swim at the school pool. However, the pool is haunted by the ghost of a body that was previously buried underneath the school.

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    Director:D.J. MacHale
    Writer:N/A
  3. 8.5/10(1.1k votes)

    #3 - The Tale of the Midnight Madness

    S2:E2

    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!

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    Director:D.J. MacHale
  4. 8.5/10(984 votes)

    #4 - The Tale of the Night Shift

    S5:E13

    A new girl starts volunteering during the nightshift at the local hospital. But the hospital seems to have more than just a new volunteer. Someone or something is feeding on the hospital's patients and employees, draining them of their blood and turning them into walking zombies.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.4/10(1.0k votes)

    #5 - The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle

    S2:E10

    Years ago a boy named Ricky Hagerdy drowned. His close friend Mike Buckley tried to save him, but failed. Ever since that day he's felt guilty for what happened. Trouble begins when he starts seeing Ricky's ghost everywhere he looks.

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  6. 8.4/10(915 votes)

    #6 - The Tale of Apartment 214

    S3:E2

    After moving into a new apartment complex with her mother, Stacy finds herself without any friends. She befriends an older woman named Madeline that lives nearby and they soon start to spend quite a bit of time together. But when Stacy breaks a promise to visit Madeline on one specific afternoon, Madeline is enraged and comes after Stacy.

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    Director:Scott Peters
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  8. 8.3/10(1.4k votes)

    #7 - The Tale of Laughing in the Dark

    S1:E2

    A kid named Josh decides to prove that a fun house isn't haunted by stealing the nose of the clown who is supposed to haunt the place. He learns that the story isn't fiction when Zeebo pays him a little visit.

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    Director:Ron Oliver
  9. 8.2/10(1.0k votes)

    #8 - The Tale of the Dark Music

    S1:E11

    Andy Carr moves in the new neighborhood where things don't start out well until he figures out that there's something hidden inside his basement.

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    Director:Ron Oliver
  10. 8.2/10(1.1k votes)

    #9 - The Tale of the Prom Queen

    S1:E12

    Two boys befriend a young woman where they encourage her to join them in search of a legend that comes every year.

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  11. 8.1/10(924 votes)

    #10 - The Tale of the Dangerous Soup

    S3:E13

    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.

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    Director:D.J. MacHale
  12. 8.1/10(946 votes)

    #11 - The Tale of Station 109.1

    S5:E3

    Chris is obsessed with death. His brother tries to get him to snap out of it by locking him in a hearse and turning up the radio full blast. The radio goes right to 109.1. When Chris goes to the station, DJ Roy mistakes him for a dead man, and sends him to the afterlife.

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    Director:Ron Oliver
  13. 8.0/10(1.1k votes)

    #12 - The Tale of the Super Specs

    S1:E6

    Weeds, a prankster, buys his friend Marybeth a pair of super spec glasses as part of an April's Fool Day where once she places on the glasses, strange figures appear and can't be explained.

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    Director:Ron Oliver
  14. 8.0/10(954 votes)

    #13 - The Tale of Old Man Corcoran

    S2:E13

    Two boys befriend a group of hide 'n' seekers who play their game in a graveyard that's rumored to be haunted by a caretakers's ghost. They soon find out that it might not be just a rumor.

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    Director:Ron Oliver
  15. 8.0/10(885 votes)

    #14 - The Tale of the Vacant Lot

    S5:E11

    A young girl, who feels inferior to her peers, encounters a strange woman in an empty lot who seems to have everything she'd ever want. The woman doesn't seem to want anything important in return. But when the young girl starts losing her looks, she finds that what she's given up is more important to her than she thought.

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  16. 7.9/10(1.2k votes)

    #15 - The Tale of the Lonely Ghost

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:D.J. MacHale
  17. 7.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #16 - The Tale of the Pinball Wizard

    S1:E13

    Ross, a mischievous kid, goes to the mall where his old habits sometimes get the best of him.

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    Director:D.J. MacHale
    Writer:N/A
  18. 7.9/10(935 votes)

    #17 - The Tale of the Dollmaker

    S3:E5

    A young girl goes to the countryside to spend a summer with her best friend but she discovers that her friend is missing. She soon discovers that a mysterious doll house in the attic is responsible for her friend's disappearance.

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    Director:David Winning
    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.9/10(753 votes)

    #18 - The Tale of the Quicksilver

    S3:E11

    A long time ago a young girl named Laura was haunted by someone or something lurking in the walls of her house. She tried to get rid of the ghost but failed and died in the process. A year later, two new brothers move into the same house and discover that history repeats itself.

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    Writer:N/A
  20. 7.8/10(907 votes)

    #19 - The Tale of the Bookish Babysitter

    S3:E6

    A young boy named Ricky, who is obsessed with TV, is put under the care of a babysitter named Belinda. Belinda has a reputation for making children interested in reading. That's because she makes the books come alive. Literally.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  21. 7.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #20 - The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors

    S1:E8

    Some new neighbors move into a neighborhood. They are originally from Eastern Europe, wear black, collect blood, and only are active at night.

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    Director:N/A
  22. 7.7/10(930 votes)

    #21 - The Tale of the Hatching

    S2:E12

    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.

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    Director:D.J. MacHale
  23. 7.7/10(755 votes)

    #22 - The Tale of the Crimson Clown

    S3:E12

    A young bratty boy learns a lesson when a Chucky-like clown doll comes to life and starts to terrorize him.

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    Director:Ron Oliver
    Writer:N/A
  24. 7.7/10(872 votes)

    #23 - The Tale of the Mystical Mirror

    S5:E4

    Employees from a boutique are disappearing and no one knows why. Soon after getting a job there, Cindy discovers the truth. Mrs. Valenti, the owner, is really centuries old and using her youthful employees to stay young.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  25. 7.6/10(1.1k votes)

    #24 - The Tale of the Twisted Claw

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:D.J. MacHale
  26. 7.6/10(1.0k votes)

    #25 - The Tale of the Captured Souls

    S1:E7

    A family moves to a small house in the summer where they befriend a young man, where the family starts feeling weaker every day.

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    Director:D.J. MacHale
    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"The Tale of the Dream Girl" is the best rated episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?". It scored 8.9/10 based on 1152 votes. Directed by David Winning and written by N/A, it aired on 3/26/1994. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Tale of the Dead Man's Float".