The Best Episodes of Ghost Stories
Every episode of Ghost Stories ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Ghost Stories!
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.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Ghost Stories" is "All Night Diner", rated 7.5/10 from 26 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "All Night Diner" aired on 11/3/1997 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Fatal Distraction".
7.5/10 26 votes#1 - All Night Diner
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/3/1997
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 another diner. But to her horror, she discovers that it's the same diner with the same tormentors. Turns out she was killed in a car crash and is trapped in her own purgatory of guilt.
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- 7.4/10 13 votes
#2 - Fatal Distraction
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/2/1998
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 to get her revenge.
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- 7.4/10 15 votes
#3 - The New Nanny
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/9/1998
A nanny spends a terrifying first night with her strange new charge.
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- 7.2/10 17 votes
#4 - You'll Wake the Dead
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 4/27/1998
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.
Director: N/A
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- 6.9/10 20 votes
#5 - Personal Demons
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/27/1997
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.
Director: N/A
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- 6.8/10 27 votes
#6 - Last Flight Out
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1997
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.
Director: N/A
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- 6.8/10 11 votes
#7 - It's Only a Movie
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 2/23/1998
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 is being played out for real - and he's the star victim.
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- 6.6/10 29 votes
#8 - Step-Sister
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1997
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 his own death and the danger she now finds herself in.
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- 6.6/10 26 votes
#9 - Consumers
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 2/23/1998
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 inhabit.
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- 6.5/10 13 votes
#10 - Sleep No More
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/19/1998
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.
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- 6.4/10 25 votes
#11 - Landscape of Lost Dreams
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1997
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.
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- 6.4/10 107 votes
#12 - Cold in the Grave
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/20/1997
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.
Director: N/A
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- 6.4/10 12 votes
#13 - Underground
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 2/16/1998
An attendant, working in a subterranean garage, finds himself trapped in a nightmarish underworld.
Director: N/A
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- 6.3/10 15 votes
#14 - Sara's Friends
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/17/1997
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.
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- 6.3/10 18 votes
#15 - Point Hope
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/26/1998
A woman is saved from suicide by a mysterious lighthouse keeper with more on his mind than her salvation.
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- 6.2/10 19 votes
#16 - Cold Dark Space
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/10/1997
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 the delusion of an astronaut adrift in space with his dead co-pilots as company.
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- 6.2/10 14 votes
#17 - The Stainless Blade
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/26/1998
The famous magician Vance Delbert passes on the secret of his magic sword.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/10 13 votes
#18 - Mirror, Mirror
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/4/1998
A haggish old dowager is murdered by her put-upon niece and young boyfriend, only to return to haunt them in mirrors.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/10 9 votes
#19 - Going Down
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 5/25/1998
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.
Director: N/A
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- 6.1/10 21 votes
#20 - Wake in Fear
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1997
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 table.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/10 14 votes
#21 - The State of Grace
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/2/1998
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 see her in a wakened state.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/10 11 votes
#22 - The House That Spilled Tears
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 5/11/1998
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/10 12 votes
#23 - Bless Me Father
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 5/18/1998
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 he left behind to join the clergy.
Director: N/A
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- 6.0/10 15 votes
#24 - Parting Shot
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 6/1/1998
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/10 14 votes
#25 - Cloistered
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/27/1997
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 young man is not what he seems.
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