Tales from the Darkside

Some unusual late-night visitors darken a miser's doorway after he dares his neighbors to send their children into his haunted house.

A recovering alcoholic is slowly driven back to the bottle-and emotional ruin-after a boy named Jerry shows up in his life and insists that he's his son.

A man accepts a million dollars for his immortal soul, but soon finds out that he's dying of cancer. Later, he and the buyer of his soul find out that payback is hell.

A doctor prescribes a miraculous cure for a patient with back pains. Only later does the man find out the full price of the remedy.

Lacey is a gambler who just can't lose. But when he wagers that a rival will die at a specific hour, Lacey learns an untimely secret.

Mookie and Pookie are very close fraternal twins. When Mookie learns he has a terminal disease, he downloads his mind into a computer. Now Pookie must somehow stop her parents from pulling the plug.

After a lifetime of "slipping through the cracks" of life, a young graphic designer begins to literally "slip" from reality.

Richard Hagstrom is disgusted with how his life has turned out until his nephew, Jonathan, gives him a homemade word processor. Quickly learning he can rewrite his life, Richard finds fantasy is sometimes a harsh reality.

A backwoods family learns that some people don't know when it's time to leave after their grandfather refuses to acknowledge that he's dead.

An unfriendly genie stuck in a magic lamp refuses to grant wishes and instead terrorizes a couple... until the wife discovers the most unlikely solution.

A magical answering machine helps a luckless TV writer discover new material. Bust soon the scribe finds the machine is taking over his life.

A cursed deck of cards proves to be a deadly gamble for a fake fortune-teller doing predictions.

On the run from her boyfriend, a young girl is taken in by a friendly couple who invite her to their special anniversary dinner. Only she finds the main course horrifyingly unpalatable.

It's a bewtiching battle of wills after a warlock and a witch each lay claim to a $10 million lottery ticket.

A constantly ringing neighbor's phone torments Joan, an English actress subletting an apartment in Manhattan.

Unable to stop stobbing, Prudence find a way to profit from her sadness when she meets a man who collects tears.

With a plan to scare her husband to death, Cathy Osborne and her friend, Michael, bring him to the "madness room": a room from which they claim no one has ever stayed the night and survived. Little do they know they are in store for some unadulterated terror.

While staying at a hotel for a meeting, Bo Gumbs, a fast-talking politician running for governor, learns his true colors.

Kharma was once one of the greatest magicians in the world. Now, doing a cheap act in a flea-bitten circus, the once-great illusionist is heckled by a fan who quickly learns the ups and downs of real magic.

A greedy developer discovers a Chinese laundry that offers to "wash out" guilt. He soon finds out that there is an unpleasant price to pay for such a unique service.

Mr. Bigalow is driven to the brink of madness by a mysterious fugure on TV - one who insists that he quit his unhealthy habits.

Cassie Pines discovers Horace X, a mechanical fortune-teller, in a diner. While uncanny with his predictions, Horace proves to be very demanding and extremely possessive.