Library of Adaptations

About a quarter of the Nightfall episodes were either adaptations of existing stories or inspired by historical events. This page is devoted to these episodes, of which John Douglas and Len Peterson were the most prolific writers, having penned eight and five respectively.

There is an entry for each adapted story. A number of them are now in the Public Domain, so we have included those stories in their entirety for you to compare and contrast with the Nightfall version. Where a story is not in the Public Domain, not used by permission, or is based on historical events, we have included details on where you may find further information about them.

Good reading!

<This section is still under development: more stories and reference links to be added>
No. EPISODE TITLE ORIGINAL STORY TITLE AUTHOR YEAR
#2 The Monkey's Paw The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs 1902
#5 The Telltale Heart The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe 1843
#9 The Body Snatchers The Body-Snatcher Robert Louis Stenevson 1884
#14 The Stone Ship The Stone Ship William Hope Hodgson 1914
#18 Ringing the Changes Ringing the Changes Robert Aickman 1955
#20
#21		 The Blood Countess
Parts 1 & 2		 based on the legend of
Countess Elizabeth Bathory		    
#25 On Christmas Day in the Morning On Christmas Day in the Morning Margery Alliingham 1950
#26 The Appetite of Mr. Lucraft The Case of Mr. Lucraft Sir Walter Besant &
James Rice		 1875
#27 The Guest of Honor Come, Lady Death Peter S. Beagle 1963
#29 They Bite They Bite Antony Boucher 1943
#31 Wildcats ? Cristian Noak ?
#32 The Room The Room Michael McCabe ?
#35 Mkara ? Michael McCabe ?
#36 The Fatal Eggs The Fateful Eggs Mikhail Bulgakov 1924
#39 Carmilla Carmilla J. Sheridan LeFanu 1872
#50 The Club of Dead Men The Club of Dead Men J. Wentworth Day ?
#52 The Porch Light Heil! Randy Brown 1976?
#55 From My Appointed Place Below Wandering Willie's Tale
from the novel Redgauntlet		 Sir Walter Scott 1824
#58 Harris and the Mare Harris and the Mare (song) Stan Rogers 1979
#60 The Screaming Skull The Screaming Skull F. Marion Crawford 1908
#63 The Maid's Bell The Lady Maid's Bell Edith Wharton 1902
#66 The Turn of the Blood The Withered Arm Thomas Hardy 1888
#68 Teig O'Kane and the Corpse Teig O'Kane and the Corpse Douglas Hyde 1921
#76 Young Goodman Brown Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne 1835
#79 The Cruel Husband Le Grand Breteche Honoré de Balzac 1830
#80 The Signalman The Signalman Charles Dickens 1866
#91 The Undertaker ? Al Purdy ?
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