Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
Miniseries
An anthology of four standalone, surreal, and dark fantasy short stories by Neil Gaiman.
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4 Episodes
- Foreign Parts
E1Foreign PartsYoung 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
E2Feeders and EatersIn an all night café pregnant waitress Joyce meets old flame Eddie, once a proud and handsome young man who now has a haunted look. He tells her how he once shared lodgings with the elderly but bewitching Miss Corvier, who taught him how to forage for fungi and other free foods. However she also had another, extremely sinister dietary habit, which had a disturbing effect upon him. - Closing Time
E3Closing TimeIn 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
E4Looking for the GirlCelebrated 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.
