"I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered and every limb convulsed - when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created." (Frankenstein)

Fenella Fielding, Valentine Dyall and Charles Osborne present an anthology of the macabre - monsters, ghosts, murderers and mummies, which have fascinated writers throughout the centuries.

(Valentine Dyall is in 'What the Butler Saw' at the Whitehall Theatre, London)