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I Watch TV: Supernatural (no not that one the 1977 British TV Series)

  Supernatural (1977 UK TV Series) The Club of the Damned is an old-fashioned secret society in England, probably around the start of the twentieth century. To join the club, prospective members must tell a story that is blood-curdlingly horrible. If it is not horrible enough they will not only be denied entry, they will be executed. Despite this several candidates present themselves; seven over eight episodes, one story being a two-parter. What sort of stories are they? Period Gothic Horror. A Shakespearean actor returns to Venice to try and find something he believes was stolen from him when he played Macbeth there. Countess Ilona invites four gentlemen from her past to her castle – none of them realising that she plans a strange revenge. An Englishman goes to Hamburg on business to find he has a double in the city. A widowed lady is haunted by a phantom – or is it a prowler on the grounds? A young girl is at odds with her stepmother, and is obsessed with her doll. An Engl...

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