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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 anthology Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre. The story, set in the late 19th century, begins with a young man named Edward Ralston (Steve Bacic), coming... MORE

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 anthology Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre. The story, set in the late 19th century, begins with a young man named Edward Ralston (Steve Bacic), coming to an old woman, Miz Carnation, who lives in an old cabin deep in the woods of upstate New York. Ralston asks Miz Carnation, a necromancer, to revive his recently deceased wife; she refuses, but then decides to tell him the story of Ernst Haeckel, and says that, if he still wishes to revive his wife afterwards, she will do as he asks. 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 create life. He learns of Montesquino, a necromancer, but believes that the man is a charlatan. Learning LESS