Tales from the Darkside - Episode Guide 

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A wrestler seeking one great opponent finds himself tricked into fighting a demon from Hell.

A mother tries to get a reprieve from her noisy drums-practicing son by making a deal with an ammonia-seeking alien.

A babysitter is called in to take care of a sick boy. As a game, the two make up a pretend creature out of household parts, one that eats sounds. The creature comes to life, sucking the sound and the life out of everything in the house.

An alien is sent to Earth to study the nature and behavior of human beings. The alien, who resembles a normal Earth female, meticulously studies photographs of still life from large cities, simultaneously fascinated with and disgusted by the disarray

 and degeneration depicted in the pictures. The alien joins a therapeutic support group in an effort to better understand the seemingly contradictory humans. As she develops personal relationships with each group member, she begins to further understand the origin of and reasons for the behavior of humans, albeit from an outside observer\'s vantage point. The other members of the group see the alien as distant and detached, a condition that they assume is rooted in a self-denial complex. As the alien speaks at one of the group meetings, she suddenly realizes that she has been experiencing the exact same feelings as the humans that she has been studying. She has become human-like through assimilation, trapped within the emotional shell of another species, and she cannot escape the grasp that this has on her.moreless

Janice, a young mother, swears to a social worker, Trudy, that her husband Robert kidnapped their son Bobby six months ago and she hasn\'t seen either of them since. Trudy agrees to find the father and son, but discovers that everything isn\'t what she was led to believe.

An aged inventor and his wife come into possession of a box marked "Do not open this box." The wife opens it and finds it empty. The next day a man comes to claim the box and the lady makes

 up a story about losing the box. The man begins giving them nice things in exchange for eventually getting the box back. The couple begin living the sweet life thanks to the stranger but when they finally give the box back, the man tells them that it contained a human soul - since the box was opened the soul has escaped and now the man needs a replacement.moreless

On her deathbed, Jamie\'s great grandmother tells him the tale of a Celtic demon, the Cutty Black Sow, that comes to claim the soul of anyone dying that night, and Jamie vows to protect her soul from the beast.

Sarah McBride is hired by a Puritan museum but ends up mysteriously going back in time where she is forced to work as a near slave in the past.

Screenwriter Tom Dash unwittingly makes a deal with the Devil and finds he must get out of it by finding a new victim or offer up his soul.

Betsy, an overweight woman, receives an anonymous package with an earpiece that will supposedly help her diet. It transmits the "voices" of her food as is being eaten, but Betsy still has problems and the next gift is a pair of glasses that let her "see" her food as well...

Michael, a heartless collection agent, finds out that Jeanette doesn\'t quite understand the rules of going into debt, and has some unpleasant problems as a result.

Katie receives a mysterious phone call from a woman warning about her husband\'s death...but he isn\'t dead yet. katie ignores the phone call, and her husband dies when she doesn\'t get him to the hospital in time. At the funeral,

 a despairing Katie calls up herself...and finds herself talking to...herself. She tries to warn her past self, despite knowing that it won\'t do any good, then collapses in despair.moreless

Much to his parents\' frustration, a spoiled young boy, Seymour, is declared the High Lama by a group of monks.

A normal, everyday, plain-as-day man is plagued by a demon, the Yattering, but seems oblivious to its mischief.

In this comedic episode, two treasure hunters discover a lost Egyptian tomb and accidentally revive a mummy. The mummy, Tapok, doesn\'t try to strangle them, but rather challenges the male explorer to a game of strip poker. The explorer loses,

 and with each piece of clothing he loses he takes on more of Tapok\'s wrappings until finally Tapok transfers his curse and leaves with the other explorer.moreless

A mobster who has finally defeated his old rival hires a reluctant puppeteer to string up his rival and make it dance for him. The mobster is unaware that puppet and puppeteer both have agendas of their own...

Sybil, a woman on the verge of death, is obsessed weith the thought that after she dies her soul will dwell within a moth, and she begs her mother to hold the moth until she can be restored to life.

Despite the discouragement of his friend, a middle-aged photographer, Algernon, tries to captures spirits on film.

A woman who lives with mannequins because she is unable to deal with real people gets a rude awakening.

An Egyptologist working on a sarcophogus ignores a curse and meets a horrific fate when he ignores it.

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