• MoonFace (Jack London) NEW TITLE
A writer's worst fear: an empty white page sitting in a typewriter and nothing to call out to you. So it's away from the city and off to a cabin in the mountains. Peace and quiet, no distractions, write, write, write. Then Peter meets John, caretaker of the cabin and self-absorbed practical joker. (35 min.)

The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allen Poe) (Available Closed Captioned)
Hauntingly filmed in stark black & white to accentuate the good vs. evil theme. The viewer cannot help but be captured into Poe's carefully woven web of murder, investigation, and the dreadful reality of betrayal from within. 30 min

The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
CINE Golden Eagle * Silver Hugo

Amid the white-washed houses of a summer island, a young boy has come to live with his grandmother. We discover this small family's touching efforts to forge an uneasy relationship and discover the love in each other in the shadow of an unusual tragedy. 45 min.

D.P. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
On the barren wasteland that is post World War II Germany, a lonely black orphan discovers the only other black he has ever seen--the soldier--and wistfully dubs him "papa. 60 min

The Gift Of Love (O. Henry)
(Available Closed Captioned)
A wealthy orphan is dutifully resigned to an arranged-for marriage when her heart is captured by a young Swiss Immigrant

The Hitch-Hikers (Eudora Welty)
Sense the heat, languor, and indolence of a Southern small-town summer night. Passing through where you've never been before, you'll be staying the night, for a hitch-hiker you kindly picked up for company on the long country road has been murdered. 30 min.

The Horse Dealer's Daughter (D.H. Lawrence)
A haunting short story of a young woman's search for identity. Taken for granted by her brothers after the death of her father, she struggles with an uncertain future--discovering her own self worth through the eyes of the young town doctor. 30 min

The Man And The Snake
(Ambrose Bierce)
A natural fear for scaly, venomous creatures produces quite an unnatural end in Hitchcock fashion.

• God Sees The Truth But Waits
(Leo Tolstoy) NEW TITLE
Perhaps the loneliest crowded place on earth . . .prison. A place where everyone claims to be innocent, and yet, one man just may be. His dreams fade as he is surrounded with this uncomfortable reality. Hope is hard to hold on to. And then, one day, a new prisoner arrives who carries the knowledge of his innocence . . . (22 min.)

Two Soldiers (William Faulkner)
A charming tale of a small farm boy who runs away from his rural environment in search of his older brother who has joined the army to fight in World War II. 30 min

The Return (Ambrose Bierce)
In a desolate country house another man seeks out his destiny with a ghost who cannot rest. 60 min
(*Two titles on one tape)

Noon Wine (Katherine Anne Porter)
On a small Texas farm at the turn of the century, a Swedish immigrant asks for work and begins his new life. Through no fault of his own, he causes the downfall of his new found employer. 81 min

Norman and the Killer (Joyce Carol Oates)
Concerns the actions of a man tormented by a tragic event which happened to him as a youth and the agonizing struggle for the truth when he confronts the man he feels perpetrated the crime against him. 30 min.

The Open Window (Saki)
We see how a young girl's descriptive narrative fuels the imagination of her attentive listener in perhaps the best known of Saki's stories, and studied in most of our schools.

Child's Play (Saki)
The story of a young boy's struggle for identity amid the conflict with his restrictive guardian.
(*Both Saki stories on one tape. 30 min.)

Who Am I This Time? (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Unable to express himself, a young clerk hides behind the magic of theatre but is drawn out by true love.

Love and Other Sorrows (Harold Brodkey)
Harold Brodkey's wonderful coming of age story set in a St. Louis 1950's summer.

The Hollow Boy (Hortense Calisher)
A poignant story, set in 1936 NYC. "You won't find a more tender example of a provocative short story adapted into a luminous teleplay. Here's television drama that unspools like a prose poem"...Los Angeles Times.