A night that will make some doubt their sanity, and others fear for their lives. A night when the heinous curse of its tainted ancestry will rise, in the form of a living horror, to seek savage vengeance…. WINTER The beast will stalk during the coldest, cruelest winter on record, in a place that is frozen, snowbound … and trapped at the mercy of something unspeakable, with a taste for human flesh and a thirst for human blood…. DEATH It’s waiting in the cold and dark to strike, again and again. And the terrified, disbelieving citizens are about to find themselves under siege—by something partly human partly animal … and completely deadly.

    This program probes the reason behind this fascination, investigating tales of fictional beast/humans, as well as the world of real vampires and werewolves -- a world more chilling and horrifying than any fiction.-The inspiration for Bram Stoker's Count Dracula -- Vlad the Impaler -- who slaughtered and impaled his enemies on stakes-Gilles Garnier, who attacked and devoured his victims, using his teeth and claw-like hands like a brute beast-The facts behind haematomania, the medical condition of vampirism -- the blood-lust that drives its victims to acts of sadism and murder-The truth about lycanthropy and congenital porphyria, which may have led to the Medieval werewolf mythsThrough a broad-ranging exploration of world literature, film and rare archival records, this tape presents an amazing, thought-provoking view of those human/inhuman creatures who rise by the light of the moon to stalk and destroy us.

    A compilation of stories, jokes, songs, riddles, poems, limericks, and other humorous material by Quackenbush; and a couple of offerings by Carroll and Lear.