Valerie on the Stairs

Valerie on the Stairs is the eighth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. Rob Hanisey (Tyron Leitso) is a highly unsuccessful writer who has long overdue bills and rent, and, as flashbacks suggest, has been dumped by his girlfriend Anna (Christine Barrie). He - after the suicide of the previous tenant, Terry - is accepted to the Highberger House which, according to its supervisor Nancy Bloom (Nicola Lipman), was bought by a rich phil... more

Valerie on the Stairs is the eighth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. Rob Hanisey (Tyron Leitso) is a highly unsuccessful writer who has long overdue bills and rent, and, as flashbacks suggest, has been dumped by his girlfriend Anna (Christine Barrie). He - after the suicide of the previous tenant, Terry - is accepted to the Highberger House which, according to its supervisor Nancy Bloom (Nicola Lipman), was bought by a rich philanthropist in the 1930s, to provide rent-free accommodation for unpublished writers, but strictly only until their first book gets published. In the House, Rob experiences strange and gradually more close encounters with a beautiful girl, Valerie (Clare Grant), who asks for his help. At the beginning Rob assumes she's a ghost. The other tenants - especially Patricia Dunbar (Suki Kaiser) - are annoyed with him and the noise he makes when chasing Valerie the ghost. Only Bruce Sweetland (Jonathan Watton) remains friendly, seemingly not making a... less