Many anthology series made for television have been based on literary sources. These sources have gone back as far as Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales) and have included works by classic writers such as Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat from Masters of Horror) and Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Climax!).
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Episode Source Writer Type "Memo from Purgatory" "Memos from Purgatory" Harlan Ellison
Black Mirror Episode Source Writer Type Season 4 "Black Museum" "The Pain Addict" Penn Jillette Short story
Bliss Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "Valentine's Day in Jail" "Valentine's Day in Jail" Susan Musgrave Short story "The Value of X" "The Value of X" Emily Schultz Short story "Voice" "Some Distinguishing Mark" Tess Fragoulis Short story "Leaper" "Leaper" Jenny Diski Short story
The Canterbury Tales Each story is an updated version of a story from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Climax! Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "The Long Goodbye" "The Long Goodbye" Raymond Chandler Novel "Casino Royale" "Casino Royale" Ian Fleming Novel "Sorry, Wrong Number" "Sorry, Wrong Number" Lucille Fletcher Radio play (episode of "Suspense") "Private Worlds" Private Worlds Claudette Colbert 1935 film Season 2 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Novel
Creepshow Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "Gray Matter" "Gray Matter" Stephen King Short story "The Finger" "The Finger" David J. Schow Short story "All Hallows Eve" "All Hallows" Bruce Jones Comic book "The Companion" "The Companion" Joe R. Lansdale, Kasey Lansdale, Keith Lansdale Short story "Times is Tough in Musky Holler" "Times is Tough in Musky Holler" John Skipp, Dori Miller Short story "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain" "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain" Joe Hill Short story Halloween Special "Survivor Type" "Survivor Type" Stephen King Short story "Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" "Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" Joe Hill Short story Christmas Special "Shapeshifters Anonymous" "Shapeshifters Anonymous" J. A. Konrath Short story Season 3 "Mums" "Mums" Joe Hill Short story "A Dead Girl Named Sue" "A Daed Girl Named Sue" Craig E. Engler Short story
The Hitchhiker Episode Source Writer Type Season 2 "Remembering Melody" "Remembering Melody" George R. R. Martin Short story Season 5 "Her Finest Hour" "Her Finest Hour" Christopher Fowler Short story Season 6 "Riding the Nightmare" "Riding the Nightmare" Lisa Tuttle Short story
The Hunger Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "The Swords" "The Swords" Robert Aickman Short story "Menage a Trois" "Menage a Trois" F. Paul Wilson Novelette "Necros" "Necros" Brian Lumley Short story "The Secret Shih Tan" "The Secret Shih Tan" Graham Masterton Short story "Bridal Suite" "Bridal Suite" Graham Masterton Short story "Anais" "Anais" Graham Masterton Short story "No Radio" "No Radio" Mickey Friedman Short story "But At My Back I Always Hear" "But At My Back I Always Hear" David Morrell Short story "Red Light" "Red Light" David J. Schow Short story "I'm Dangerous Tonight" "I'm Dangerous Tonight" Cornell Woolrich Novella "The Sloan Men" "The Sloan Men" David Nickle Short story "Hidebound" "Hidebound" Gemma Files Short story "Fly-By-Night" "Fly-by-Night" Gemma Files Short story "A River of Night's Dreaming" "The River of Night's Dreaming" Karl Edward Wagner Short story "The Lighthouse" "Horror in the Lighthouse" Robert Bloch Short story "The Face of Helene Bournouw" "The Face of Helene Bournouw" Harlan Ellison Short story "Plain Brown Envelope" "The Plain Brown Envelope" Lyn Wood Short story "The Other Woman" "The Other Woman" Lois Tilton Short story "Clarimonde" "La Morte Amoureuse" Théophile Gautier Short story "Footsteps" "Footsteps" Harlan Ellison Short story Season 2 "Skin Deep" "Skin Deep" Christa Faust Short story "The Dream Sentinel" "The Sixth Sentinel" Poppy Z. Brite Short story "And She Laughed" "And She Laughed" Liz Holliday Short story "Nunc Dimittis" "Nunc Dimittis" Tanith Lee Short story "Week Woman" "Week Woman" Kim Newman Short story "Night Bloomer" "Night Bloomer" David J. Schow Short story "The Diarist" "The Diarist" Gemma Files Short story "Replacements" "Replacements" Lisa Tuttle Short story "Wrath of God" "The Guided Tour" Gemma Files Short story "Bottle of Smoke" "Bottle of Smoke" Gemma Files Short story "The Perfect Couple" "Jeff and Linda" David J. Schow Short story "The Sacred Fire" "The Sacred Fire" Charles de Lint Short story "The Seductress" "The Seductress" Ramsey Campbell Short story "Double" "Beyond Any Measure" Karl Edward Wagner Short story
Masters of Horror Episode Source Writer Type "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" Joe R. Lansdale Short story "H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House" "The Dreams in the Witch House" H. P. Lovecraft Short story "Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror episode)" "House of the Dead" Richard Matheson Short story "Jenifer" "Jenifer" Bruce Jones, Bernie Wrightson Comic book "Chocolate" Chocolate Mick Garris Short story "The Black Cat" "The Black Cat" Edgar Allan Poe Short story "Homecoming" "Death & Suffrage" Dale Bailey Novelette "The Screwfly Solution" "The Screwfly Solution" James Tiptree Jr. Novelette "Imrpint" "Bokke e, kyōtē" Shimako Iwai Novel "The Washingtonians" "The Washingtonians" Bentley Little Short story
Masters of Science Fiction Episode Source Writer Type "A Clean Escape" "A Clean Escape" John Kessel Play "The Awakening" "The Awakening" Howard Fast Story "Jerry Was a Man" "Jerry Was a Man" Robert A. Heinlein Short story "The Discarded" "The Discarded" Harlan Ellison Short story
Monsters Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "The Legacy" "The Chaney Legacy" Robert Bloch Short story "Rouse Him Not" "Rouse Him Not" Manly Wade Wellman Short story "All in a Day's Work" "All in a Day's Work" Maureen F. McHugh Novelette "Mannikins of Horror" "Mannikins of Horror" Robert Bloch Short story "La Strega" "La Strega" Richard Russo Short story Season 2 "The Demons" "The Demons" Robert Sheckley Short story "Reaper" "Reaper" Robert Bloch Short story "Far Below" "Far Below" Robert Barbour Johnson Short story Season 3 "Bug House" "Bug House" Lisa Tuttle Short story "The Young and the Headless" "The Monster-Maker" W.C. Morrow Short story "The Space-Eaters" "The Space-Eaters" Frank Belknap Long Short story "The Moving Finger" "The Moving Finger" Stephen King Short story
Night Gallery Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "The Dead Man" "The Dead Man" Fritz Leiber Short story "The Little Black Bag" "The Little Black Bag" Cyril M. Kornbluth Short story Season 2 "A Fear of Spiders" "The Spider" Elizabeth Walter Short story "Marmalade Wine" "Marmalade Wine" Joan Aiken Short story "The Academy" "The Academy" David Ely Short story "Pickman's Model" "Pickman's Model" HP Lovecraft Short story "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" Conrad Aiken Short story
Nightmare Classics Episode Source Writer Type "The Turn of the Screw" "The Turn of the Screw Henry James Novella "Carmilla" "Carmilla" J. Sheridan Le Fanu Novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Robert Louis Stevenson Novella "The Eyes of the Panther" "The Eyes of the Panther" Ambrose Bierce Short story
Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King All episodes based on the short stories by Stephen King.
The Outer Limits The Outer Limits (1964) Episode Source Writer Type Season 2 "Soldier" "Soldier From Tomorrow" Harlan Ellison Short story "I, Robot" "I, Robot" Eando Binder Short story
The Outer Limits (1995 - 2002) Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "The Sandkings" "Sandkings" George RR Martin Short story "The Conversion" "Two Strangers" Richard B. Lewis Short story "I, Robot" "I, Robot" Eando Binder Short story Season 2 "First Anniversary" "First Anniversary" Richard Matheson Short story "Inconstant Moon" "Inconstant Moon" Larry Niven Short story Season 3 "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" Stephen King Short story "Feasibility Study" "A Feasibility Study" Joseph Stefano Original Outer Limits episode Season 5 "The Human Operators" "The Human Operators" Harlan Ellison, A.E. van Vogt Novelette Season 7 "Think Like a Dinosaur" "Think Like a Dinosaur" James Patrick Kelly Novelette
The Ray Bradbury Theater All stories by Ray Bradbury, many based on his short stories.
Tales from the Crypt Mostly from EC Comics stories. See List of Tales from the Crypt episodes.
Tales from the Darkside Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "The Word Processor of the Gods" Word Processor of the Gods Stephen King Short story "Djinn, No Chaser" "Djinn, No Chaser" Harlan Ellison Story Season 3 "The Bitterest Pill" "The Richest Man in Levittown" Frederick Pohl Short story Season 4 "The Yattering and Jack" "The Yattering and Jack" Clive Barker "Love Hungry" "Food for Thought" Roberts Gannaway
Tales of the Unexpected Early episodes based on Roald Dahl's short stories.
The United States Steel Hour Episode Source Writer Type Season 1 "Hedda Gabler" "Hedda Gabler" Henrik Ibsen Play "The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham" "The Rise of Silas Lapham" William Dean Howells Novel "A Garden in the Sea" "The Aspern Papers" Henry James Novella Season 4 "We Must Kill Toni" "We Must Kill Toni" Ian Stuart Black Play "Bang the Drum Slowly" "Bang the Drum Slowly" Mark Harris Novel "Tom Sawyer" "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain Novel "The Bottle Imp" "The Bottle Imp" Robert Louis Stevenson Short story Season 6 "Family Happiness" "Family Happiness" Leo Tolstoy Novella "The Pink Burro" "The Pink Burro" Jean Riley Play Season 8 "The Yum Yum Girl" "The Yum-Yum Girl" John Latham Toohey Short story "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon" "Flowers for Algernon" Daniel Keyes Short story "Watching Out for Dulie" "Watching Out for Dulie" David Westheimer Novel Season 10 "Wanted: Someone Innocent" "Wanted: Someone Innocent" Margery Allingham Novella "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" J. M. Barrie Play
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