Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 5

1995 · 13 episodes · ★ 7.1

What Season 5 of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

A group of teenagers who call themselves The Midnight Society meets secretly in the woods around a campfire. Each week, one of them takes the floor to tell a horror story. Before they begin, they toss a special powder into the fire so the smoke turns white. The tales involve demons, ghosts, haunted houses and curses that fall on ordinary kids. Zeke and Clorice discover a pool inhabited by a vengeful spirit, and a girl sent to live with her aunt investigates a mysterious signal on the mountain. Ross Hull and Daniel DeSanto lead the cast of this series, created by D.J. MacHale and Ned Kandel.

13episodes

Oct 7, 1995aired

Feb 3, 1996last episode

5.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 The Tale of the Dead Man's Float
Oct 7, 1995 · 24 min
Zeke is good at chemistry, but not at girls. When he befriends one, she teaches him how to swim at the school pool. However, the pool is haunted by the ghost of a body that was previously buried underneath the school.
Directing: D.J. MacHale · Starring: Aimée Castle, Jay Baruchel, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Marcel Jeannin
5x02 The Tale of the Jagged Sign
Oct 21, 1995 · 24 min
A young girl, Claudia, goes to visit her relatives at the boarding house for the elderly that they own. She's bored at first but soon learns the legend of a ghost who haunts a special spot of a mountain in the woods. Her time spent away from home gets even more unusual when she actually sees the ghost himself.
Directed by: Ron Oliver · Starring: Hillary Hawkins, Marcia Bennett, Terrence Labrosse, Miriam Samuels
5x03 The Tale of Station 109.1
Nov 4, 1995 · 24 min
Chris is obsessed with death. His brother tries to get him to snap out of it by locking him in a hearse and turning up the radio full blast. The radio goes right to 109.1. When Chris goes to the station, DJ Roy mistakes him for a dead man, and sends him to the afterlife.
Directed by: Ron Oliver · Written by: Scott Peters · Starring: Laura Bertram, Ryan Gosling, Gilbert Gottfried, Zachary Carlin
5x04 The Tale of the Mystical Mirror
Nov 11, 1995 · 24 min
Employees from a boutique are disappearing and no one knows why. Soon after getting a job there, Cindy discovers the truth. Mrs. Valenti, the owner, is really centuries old and using her youthful employees to stay young.
Starring: Laura Bertram, Lexi Randall, Jayne Heitmeyer, Genevieve Ferderber
5x05 The Tale of Prisoners Past
Dec 2, 1995 · 24 min
Scott and his step-brother hate each other and can't seem to get along. After fighting on their school field trip to a famous prison, they accidentally release One-Eyed Jack, an ex-prisoner's ghost, and he follows them home. They finally have to learn to cooperate in order to get the ghost to rest in peace.
Directed by: Ron Oliver · Starring: Pablo Coffey, Christopher Castile, Martin Neufeld, Dan Petronijevic
5x06 The Tale of C7
Dec 9, 1995 · 24 min
A family buys an old abondoned hotel, with the intentions of fixing it up and re-opening it. But when the old jukebox is pulled out and fixed, it starts to play a long-forgotten song late at night, summoning a restless spirit from the nearby lake.
Directed by: Ron Oliver, David Winning · Starring: Jesse Moss, Colin Ferguson, Tegan Moss, Jane Wheeler
5x07 The Tale of Badge
Dec 23, 1995 · 24 min
Gwen is constantly being upstaged by her brother- even on her birthday. Her grandmother Willy gives her a special necklace and a magical flute that holds the key to a family secret. When her brother accidentally releases an evil creature named Badge, it's up to Gwen to use her musical gift to save her family and herself.
Directed by: David Winning · Starring: Aidan Pendleton, Judy Sinclair, Roland Smith, Dylan Provencher
5x08 The Tale of the Manaha
Dec 30, 1995 · 24 min
A blithe boy name Jonah enlists in a camping expedition with a group of misfits where an ancient legend has awoken in the woods.
Starring: Michael Yarmush, A.J. Buckley, David Deveau, James Hayes Liboiron
5x09 The Tale of the Unexpected Visitor
Jan 6, 1996 · 24 min
Using the equipment of Jeff's father, who's working on a special space project, two friends send some of their music into space. This apparently attracts the attention of an alien creature who has received their message.
Starring: Charlie Hofheimer, Chris Wilding, Natalie Hamel-Roy, Pierre Leblanc
5x10 The Tale of the Chameleons
Jan 13, 1996 · 24 min
When a chameleon bites a girl at a pet store, the lizard takes on her form and plots to take over the world.
Directed by: Ron Oliver · Starring: Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Spencer Evans, Amanda Strawn
5x11 The Tale of the Vacant Lot
Jan 20, 1996 · 24 min
A young girl, who feels inferior to her peers, encounters a strange woman in an empty lot who seems to have everything she'd ever want. The woman doesn't seem to want anything important in return. But when the young girl starts losing her looks, she finds that what she's given up is more important to her than she thought.
Directed by: Ron Oliver, D.J. MacHale · Written by: Scott Peters · Starring: Jean Marie Barnwell, Erin Hicock, Aloka McLean, Erin Simms
5x12 The Tale of a Door Unlocked
Jan 27, 1996 · 24 min
Justin visits Sardo's Magic Mansion and buys a miniature door from Sardo that's supposed to let him see the future. He sees an unfamiliar girl trapped in a fire. But soon a new girl, Ashley, arrives at school and looks exactly like the girl that Justin saw in the fire. It's up to him to save her from the future.
Directing: D.J. MacHale · Writing: Chloe Brown · Starring: Richard Dumont, Michael Maccarone, Shawn Potter, Elana Nep
5x13 The Tale of the Night Shift Season Finale
Feb 3, 1996 · 24 min
A new girl starts volunteering during the nightshift at the local hospital. But the hospital seems to have more than just a new volunteer. Someone or something is feeding on the hospital's patients and employees, draining them of their blood and turning them into walking zombies.
Starring: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jorge Vargas, Elisabeth Rosen, Andreas Apergis