Night Gallery's "Miss Lovecraft Sent Me"

Someone was good enough to put up this short piece from the classic television show of the weird and macabre, Night Gallery. Running for three seasons from 1970-1973, Night Gallery was another product of legendary weird host and producer Rod Serling, and sought to build on the earlier success of the Twilight Zone. While it did not accomplish this, it left behind a number of quality episodes much in the vein of its predecessor, but often with a darker twist. On several occasions, Night Gallery also produced a number of short "vignette" pieces that played at the end of each episode, like the Youtube sampling below called "Miss Lovecraft Sent Me."

In this case, the similarities with the Lovecraftian in this short cut end with the name and a few ominous tomes. However, it is a great example of the kind of humor Serling injected into his work. It's worth noting Night Gallery did produce a few genuinely Lovecraftian episodes. An adaptation of Lovecraft's tale, "Pickman's Model," and a Lovecraft-based story called "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture" are among the best. Currently, Night Gallery re-runs on NBC's horror channel, Chiller, and has witnessed a slow release of episodes onto DVD the last couple years.

-Grim Blogger