Season 1

HG Wells presents his dark story about a fateful agreement between a young man and an aging philosopher.

Ray Winstone introduces a tale about an artist whose obsession with his work costs him his soul.

Ray Winstone introduces a sinister tale of two entomologists whose bitter rivalry drives one of them to insanity.

Shopkeeper Mr Coombes has had enough of life, but when he stumbles across some curious hallucinogenic toadstools, things take a dramatic turn.