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The Best Episodes of Ghost Stories Season 1

Every episode of Ghost Stories Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Ghost Stories Season 1!

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.

Genres:MysteryDrama
Network:ABC Family

Season 1 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Ghost Stories" season 1 is "Back Ward", rated 5.5/10 from 110 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Back Ward" aired on 9/28/1997 and is rated 1.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Last Flight Out".

  • Back Ward
    5.5/10 110 votes

    #1 - Back Ward

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1997

    The new chief psychiatrist at an old mental institution is haunted by Images from the hospital's cruel past.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Flight Out
    6.8/10 27 votes

    #2 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Step-Sister
    6.6/10 29 votes

    #3 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • You'll Always Be Mine
    5.7/10 24 votes

    #4 - You'll Always Be Mine

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1997

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wake in Fear
    6.1/10 21 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Blood Money
    5.2/10 13 votes

    #6 - Blood Money

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1997

    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 haunted by the spirits of those who were killed during the heist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Landscape of Lost Dreams
    6.4/10 25 votes

    #7 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cold in the Grave
    6.4/10 107 votes

    #8 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Personal Demons
    6.9/10 20 votes

    #9 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Cloistered
    5.9/10 14 votes

    #10 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All Night Diner
    7.5/10 26 votes

    #11 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Beware the Muse
    5.7/10 16 votes

    #12 - Beware the Muse

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/3/1997

    A tabloid reporter concocts a story about a long-dead serial killer, and unwittingly resurrects the killer's ghost.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blazes
    5.5/10 15 votes

    #13 - Blazes

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/10/1997

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cold Dark Space
    6.2/10 19 votes

    #14 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Green-Eyed Monster
    5.1/10 18 votes

    #15 - Green-Eyed Monster

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/17/1997

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sara's Friends
    6.3/10 15 votes

    #16 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Beat the Reaper
    5.9/10 15 votes

    #17 - Beat the Reaper

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/24/1997

    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, the man is terrified to learn that the ghost is the Angel of Death, intent upon keeping his prize, and not being cheated.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Conscience
    5.8/10 14 votes

    #18 - Conscience

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1998

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sleep No More
    6.5/10 13 votes

    #19 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Point Hope
    6.3/10 18 votes

    #20 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Stainless Blade
    6.2/10 14 votes

    #21 - 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

  • The State of Grace
    6.1/10 14 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Fatal Distraction
    7.4/10 13 votes

    #23 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The New Nanny
    7.4/10 15 votes

    #24 - The New Nanny

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/9/1998

    A nanny spends a terrifying first night with her strange new charge.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Heartsick
    5.8/10 16 votes

    #25 - Heartsick

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 2/9/1998

    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 on the train.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A