Ghost Stories

1997 - 1998 NR 30m 6.7

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 curr...

"Ghost Stories" was a 1997 US supernatural anthology series, hosted by Rip Torn. Each of these haunting stories would feature a different chilling tale. Rip Torn would narrate: "Come with me to a place of wondrous contradictions. A place that is silent and unstirring yet is restless and alive. A place of untold peace and boundless dread. Come with me into the very cradle of darkness where those who dwell, dwell alone!"

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Back Ward

1. Back Ward

Aired: Sep 28, 1997

The new chief psychiatrist at an old mental institution is haunted by Images ...

Episode 2 Last Flight Out

2. Last Flight Out

Aired: Sep 28, 1997

A year after the plane crash that claimed her husband and child, a guilt ridd...

Episode 3 Step-Sister

3. Step-Sister

Aired: Oct 5, 1997

When a young girl's mother remarries, she moves into her step-father's house,...

Episode 4 You'll Always Be Mine

4. You'll Always Be Mine

Aired: Oct 5, 1997

A young woman is stalked by the ghost of an obsessive suitor. After she's fou...

Episode 5 Wake in Fear

5. Wake in Fear

Aired: Oct 13, 1997

An overworked intern is plagued by dreams in which he sees corpses being whee...

Episode 6 Blood Money

6. Blood Money

Aired: Oct 13, 1997

A crooked lawman hounds an ex-con bank robber to determine the whereabouts of...

Episode 8 Cold in the Grave

8. Cold in the Grave

Aired: Oct 20, 1997

A divorced, embittered repairman murders a woman he picked up in the bar, sta...

Episode 9 Personal Demons

9. Personal Demons

Aired: Oct 27, 1997

A social worker pursuing a mentally unbalanced man who escaped from a halfway...

Episode 10 Cloistered

10. Cloistered

Aired: Oct 27, 1997

A lonely care-giver to the elderly falls for a man whom she believes is kept ...

Episode 11 All Night Diner

11. All Night Diner

Aired: Nov 3, 1997

Abandoning her family, a woman drives out of town and stops at an all night d...

Episode 12 Beware the Muse

12. Beware the Muse

Aired: Nov 3, 1997

A tabloid reporter concocts a story about a long-dead serial killer, and unwi...

Episode 13 Blazes

13. Blazes

Aired: Nov 10, 1997

A hero fireman, who is actually a compulsive arsonist, forges an unholy allia...

Episode 14 Cold Dark Space

14. Cold Dark Space

Aired: Nov 10, 1997

A frenzied man finds himself trapped in a nightmarish hospital room. Surround...

Episode 15 Green-Eyed Monster

15. Green-Eyed Monster

Aired: Nov 17, 1997

A jealous husband becomes a green-eyed monster when he finds his wife giving ...

Episode 16 Sara's Friends

16. Sara's Friends

Aired: Nov 17, 1997

Sara works in a morgue, but she has lots of friends - on the gurney. But when...

Episode 17 Beat the Reaper

17. Beat the Reaper

Aired: Nov 24, 1997

A man on death row prays for a governor's pardon. One night he has a ghostly ...

Episode 18 Conscience

18. Conscience

Aired: Jan 19, 1998

A good man who has done some terrible things finds that his conscience has a ...

Episode 19 Sleep No More

19. Sleep No More

Aired: Jan 19, 1998

A dream psychologist who takes on her patients' nightmares yearns to escape h...

Episode 20 Point Hope

20. Point Hope

Aired: Jan 26, 1998

A woman is saved from suicide by a mysterious lighthouse keeper with more on ...

Episode 21 The Stainless Blade

21. The Stainless Blade

Aired: Jan 26, 1998

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

Episode 22 The State of Grace

22. The State of Grace

Aired: Feb 2, 1998

A lonely hospital orderly falls in love with a beautiful woman who just happe...

Episode 23 Fatal Distraction

23. Fatal Distraction

Aired: Feb 2, 1998

A frustrated writer is tempted to cheat on his wife by a mysterious woman he ...

Episode 24 The New Nanny

24. The New Nanny

Aired: Feb 9, 1998

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

Episode 25 Heartsick

25. Heartsick

Aired: Feb 9, 1998

The recipient of a heart transplant finds herself attracted to a stranger she...

Episode 26 At Death's Door

26. At Death's Door

Aired: Feb 16, 1998

At the end of the Civil War, a grieving woman, whose husband is missing in ac...

Episode 27 Underground

27. Underground

Aired: Feb 16, 1998

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

Episode 28 It's Only a Movie

28. It's Only a Movie

Aired: Feb 23, 1998

Joey Howell, jaded horror film fan, wins being a role of an extra in a horror...

Episode 29 Consumers

29. Consumers

Aired: Feb 23, 1998

A young guy gets a job working the night shift at a supermarket frequented by...

Episode 30 From the Ashes

30. From the Ashes

Aired: Mar 2, 1998

An Asian man, a refugee from his homeland's murderous regime, is haunted by a...

Episode 31 Scream House

31. Scream House

Aired: Mar 2, 1998

A man drags his wife back to the idealized neighborhood of his youth, but a t...

Episode 32 You'll Wake the Dead

32. You'll Wake the Dead

Aired: Apr 27, 1998

A cruel young couple wage a campaign of noisy terror to evict an old lady fro...

Episode 33 Resting Place

33. Resting Place

Aired: Apr 27, 1998

A grieving father refuses to accept the loss of his son, presumed dead from t...

Episode 34 The Inheritance

34. The Inheritance

Aired: May 4, 1998

An African-American couple are terrorized in their new home by the ghost of a...

Episode 35 Mirror, Mirror

35. Mirror, Mirror

Aired: May 4, 1998

A haggish old dowager is murdered by her put-upon niece and young boyfriend, ...

Episode 37 Winner Takes All

37. Winner Takes All

Aired: May 11, 1998

A ruthless CEO gathers three of his executives for a most unusual poker game ...

Episode 38 Cabin Fever

38. Cabin Fever

Aired: May 18, 1998

Art Jones faked his death in a mountain blizzard and killed his climbing guid...

Episode 39 Bless Me Father

39. Bless Me Father

Aired: May 18, 1998

A young disillusioned priest is sent to take over a dying parish, but finds h...

Episode 40 Erased

40. Erased

Aired: May 25, 1998

Locked in a stale marriage with her lackluster husband, a youth-obsessed woma...

Episode 41 Going Down

41. Going Down

Aired: May 25, 1998

The experience of having been trapped and held hostage in an elevator has lef...

Episode 42 Denial

42. Denial

Aired: Jun 1, 1998

After his wife's murderer is finally sentenced, a man starts to see visions o...

Episode 43 Parting Shot

43. Parting Shot

Aired: Jun 1, 1998

A paparazza seeks the ultimate shot - of the now dead celebrity at a funeral ...


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Info about Ghost Stories

Current Status: Ended

Network: ABC Family

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Fantasy