Theatre Macabre

About Theatre Macabre

Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.

TVP's Theatre Macabre is a mystery, science fiction, and fantasy series. Its one season of 24 episodes aired between October 1971 and March 1972.

The series is filed under horror anthology, based on short story, literary adaptation, and anthology. The story is adapted from a novel. Christopher Lee plays Self – Host.

In the United States it streams on Midnight Pulp, Screambox Amazon Channel, and Troma NOW.

Tales to Keep You Awake, Chillers, and American Horror Story make useful companions to Theatre Macabre.