A lawyer takes on a new employee but fails to check the references. The original role model for slackers everywhere.

A married couple return to the groom's home town to start their life together - but his position as town marshal complicates matters.

Hughie Erskine is good-looking but penniless and needs ten thousand pounds to wed the love of his life. Then he drops in on a painter friend......

Who is the mysterious Mr. W. H. to whom Shakespere dedicated his sonnets? The validity of one bizarre theory hinges on a wonderful painting which may or may not be a fake.

An orphan child is born into an all-male community of low lives - acting as the catalyst for some radical changes.

A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popular ever episode of The Twighlight Zone.

A group of misfits are thrown together by the harsh realities of expulsion from their settlement.

An incident that takes place during the American civil war begins with a sentry asleep at his post. Neatly examines the personal amongst the duty and professionalism of war.

While in the service of a widower with a dark past, a young tutor begins to wonder about his master's regular visits to a room nobody else is allowed to enter.

A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.

In this homage to Poe, two rival scholars are brought together when one discovers an important early Christian burial ground.

A man contemplating ending it all off the edge of a cliff is apparently - by an enormous stroke of luck - given a second chance.

A hard drinking, womanising, moustache-wearing baron decides he must get married.

Typhoid enters a religious household. An emotional tale examining the morality of lies.

A hard-up young man receives a timely invitation to visit a mysterious, wealthy cousin at his country retreat - a bizzare menagerie of birds, reptiles and a man-eating black puma.