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 of herself.

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Rip Torn

Going Down

Bless Me Father

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

Back Ward

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.

Last Flight Out

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.

Step-Sister

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.

You'll Always Be Mine

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.

Wake in Fear

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.

Blood Money

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.

Landscape of Lost Dreams

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.

Cold in the Grave

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.

Personal Demons

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.

Cloistered

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.

All Night Diner

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

Beware the Muse

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.

Blazes

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.

Cold Dark Space

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.

Green-Eyed Monster

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.

Sara's Friends

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.

Beat the Reaper

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.

Conscience

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.

Sleep No More

A woman is saved from suicide by a mysterious lighthouse keeper with more on his mind than her salvation.

Point Hope

The famous magician Vance Delbert passes on the secret of his magic sword.

The Stainless Blade

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.

The State of Grace

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.

Fatal Distraction

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

The New Nanny

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.

Heartsick

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 has come to take the woman, not her son.

At Death's Door

An attendant, working in a subterranean garage, finds himself trapped in a nightmarish underworld.

Underground

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.

It's Only a Movie

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.

Consumers

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.

From the Ashes

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.

Scream House

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.

You'll Wake the Dead

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 - his father's undying love has resurrected the living dead.

Resting Place

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 from his sins.

The Inheritance

A haggish old dowager is murdered by her put-upon niece and young boyfriend, only to return to haunt them in mirrors.

Mirror, Mirror

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.

The House That Spilled Tears

A ruthless CEO gathers three of his executives for a most unusual poker game - the stakes of which prove more than anyone bargained for.

Winner Takes All

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 the climbing guide.

Cabin Fever

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.

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.

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.

Denial

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.

Parting Shot

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 realizes her own son was trying to set her free from her guilt.

I Heard You Call My Name

Ghost Stories is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1997 to 1998 on the cable channel The Family Channel.

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.

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