Haeckel's Tale (also known as Clive Barker's Haeckel's Tale) is the twelfth episode of the first season of the television series Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on January 27, 2006. George A. Romero was originally supposed to direct the episode but was replaced by John McNaughton because of a scheduling problem.
The episode script is based on a Clive Barker short story first published in the "Dark Delicacies: Original Tale...
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Haeckel's Tale (also known as Clive Barker's Haeckel's Tale) is the twelfth episode of the first season of the television series Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on January 27, 2006. George A. Romero was originally supposed to direct the episode but was replaced by John McNaughton because of a scheduling problem.
The episode script is based on a Clive Barker short story first published in the "Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre" anthology.
The story of Haeckel's Tale begins with a young man, Edward Ralston (Steve Bacic), coming to an old woman Miz Carnation on the account that she is a necromancer that can revive his deceased wife. She refuses, but then decides to tell him the story of Ernst Haeckel and if he still wishes to revive his wife afterwards, she will.
The story mainly concerns Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil) who is trying to follow in the footsteps of Victor Frankenstein but is unsuccessful with his attempts to perform similar...
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