Mystery and Imagination

- Season 1

(1966)

A certain tune, played on a particular violin, invokes an evil eighteenth century occultist.

In the early 19th century, an eminent professor seeks (illegally) to obtain dead bodies for his anatomical research.

A young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old house, and comes into conflict with her neurotic brother.

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?

Garrett, a young librarian, is hired by an impatient man to find an old tractate - so that he can cheat the real heirs out of their estate... but the book is haunted by the ghost of the previous owner.

Will children become the victims of human sacrifice?

Rich Americans visiting Europe lease an old English country house and find it comes complete with a ghost - who finds these strangers more alarming than they find him.