• Air date: 27 Feb '99 13 episodes
      Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The show was filmed in Richmond, British Columbia and in Montreal, Quebec including their suburbs. The episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" was aired as a pilot on the evening of October 31, 1991 in the USA and in October 1990 in Canada. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelodeon's SNICK. The series also aired on the Canadian television network YTV from October 30, 1990 until June 11, 2000. A revived series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker, although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by...
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. The Tale of the Zombie Dice

      27 Feb '99
      A man working in an arcade has been shrinking kids and selling them as tiny pets, and now a teen is gambling for his life.
    • 2. The Tale of the Forever Game

      06 Feb '99
      When Peter gets fed up with his tag-along sister Monica, he speeds up on ahead of her and his friend during their bike ride. They become seperated and Peter finds himself trapped in a place where he's forced to play a mysterious game, and his friend and sister are trapped in the woods until the game is finished. If Peter wins this game, he'll be free to leave. But if he loses, he'll be trapped there forever.
    • 3. The Tale of Jake the Snake

      20 Apr '99
      During ice hockey try-outs, Wiley finds a stick that used to belong to Jake the Snake, a great player. While using the stick, Wiley seems to have a natural talent for hockey and even makes the team. Soon after, he not only gets an ego, calling himself Wiley the Snake, but starts to shed his skin and gain a strange appetite for mice... Similar to a snake.
    • 4. The Tale of the Virtual Pets

      27 Feb '99
      When all the kids at school get virtual pets, it changes them in a very scary way. Luckily, Kate doesn't like these hi-tech toys. In an electronic showdown, she'll have to battle all her best friends in a struggle to death...save her life and theirs.
    • 5. The Tale of the Misfortune Cookie

      13 Mar '99
      Tired of his boring life and slaving away at his parents' failing Chinese restaurant, David is given his grandfather's box of magic fortune cookies that send the boy into an alternate reality where he's a rich and famous comic book artist but is also a stranger to his parents whose restaurant is now a town hit and his sister who is now an abusive punk girl living with her petty thug boyfriend and on the run from a Chinese warrior dressed in black.
    • 6. The Tale of the Gruesome Gourmets

      20 Mar '99
      In this story told by Midnight Society member Megan, Tommy and his little brother David think the new upstairs neighbors have a lot of strange cooking and eating habits that veer towards the "cannibal" end of the spectrum.
    • 7. The Tale of the Hunted

      27 Mar '99
      A girl living in rural Canada is pressured by her dad and friends to go wolf hunting with them, but a mysterious wolf called The Blaze is about to show her the cruelty of hunting through an animal's eyes.
    • 8. The Tale of Vampire Town

      03 Apr '99
      Adder is obsessed with "hunting vampires" and does by thinking and acting as a vampire would. On vacation he drags his family to Wisteria, a town rumored to be an area of vampires, about a week after a funeral-home owner claimed to be attacked by one. That night, he goes looking in the famous coffins the legendary Dreyfus was said to be in, but learns the story isn't legend. And he not only has to face Dreyfus, but also some locals who know vampires are real and take Adder's actions to heart
    • 9. The Tale of the Wisdom Glass

      10 Apr '99
      Friends Allan and Jimmy are in for a cyber shock after they steal a computer game called "The Wisdom Glass" and find themselves transported to a strange game-world where they end up on trial for the theft of the game.
    • 10. The Tale of the Walking Shadow

      17 Apr '99
      When the local high school decides to stage Macbeth, it unleashes some terrifying ghosts lurking backstage. Ross and Vanessa find out why the play is haunted and must get rid of the gremlins without getting blood on their hands.
    • 11. The Tale of Oblivion

      24 Apr '99
      A boy tired of being pushed into lame recreational activities and lessons learn how to erase his problems, literally.
    • 12. The Tale of the Secret Admirer

      08 May '99
      Shy Meggie is thrilled when she discovers she's got a secret admirer. But her excitement turns to fear when she realizes her secret admirer may be writing to her from beyond the grave.
    • 13. The Tale of Bigfoot Ridge

      15 May '99
      While skiing in Canada and searching for their missing friend, two teenagers get lost in a cabin with a spooky life-sucking demon lurking around.