An anthology of four standalone, surreal, and dark fantasy short stories by Neil Gaiman.
Cast
George MacKay
Simon Powers
Steve Barnett
Patient
Dioni Tabbers
Model
Christina Pennant
DLR Commuter
Tom Hughes
Eddie Barrow
Rita Tushingham
Effie Corvier
Charlotte Flyte
Young Effie
Mark Haldor
Patient
Charmaine Ireland
Girl on night out
Destiny Clare
Girl on night out
Johnny Vegas
Daniel
Simon Manyonda
Gordon
Sonnyboy Skelton
Jamie
Noah Yeneralski
Douglas
Toby Yeneralski
Stewart
Richard Syms
Mr Durma
Joey Price
The Boy
Kenneth Cranham
Dean Smith
Monica Dolan
Miranda Walker
Chloe Hayward
Charlotte
Denise Gough
Nina
Johann Myers
John Felbridge
Alex Hardy
Young Dean
Montserrat Lombard
Rachel
Symara A. Templeman
Model
Paul Ritter
TV Presenter
Kirk Lake
Boom Man
Neil Gaiman
Self
Episodes
Foreign Parts
Young loner Simon Powers is amazed to learn that he has a STD despite having been celibate for three years and visits the clinic run by Dr Benham. Over the next few weeks, Simon feels his body being taken over by something else though it is ultimately for the good as he becomes a different person. But as Simon starts to feel stronger, Dr Benham's life is taking a turn for the worse.
Feeders and Eaters
In an all-night café, pregnant waitress Joyce is confronted by a man from her past who tells her the extraordinary story of an elderly neighbour of his who needs raw meat to survive.
Closing Time
In the Diogenes Club, writer Daniel is sceptical of ghost stories told by other members and barmaid Helena but contributes a spooky tale of his own when, as a boy, he met a gang of youths who took him to a sinister house in the woods. He refused their dare to enter but then something very weird happened, Nobody else believes him save for an elderly man who seems to have known the boys that Danny met and can vouch for his story.
Looking for the Girl
Celebrated photographer Dean Smith tells interviewer Miranda Walker how, as a teenager, he became besotted with Charlotte, a 19-year old model whose face he saw in a men's magazine. Bizarrely, over the years, he would see her again and again in different publications under different names but still only 19. All efforts to find her were in vain until, some twenty years after his first sight of her, she walked into his newly acquired first studio to model for him and still gave her age as 19.
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