1980, early October.
Nine-year-old me was supposed to be asleep, but wasn’t.
Loud dramatic music was playing downstairs, so I couldn’t resist a surreptitious peep at what Mum and Dad were watching, and I was confronted by something that would stick with me forever: a children’s birthday party, where all the young attendees were liberally covered with blood.
Later in life, not sure whether I’d partly imagined it, I’d seek it out.
It turns out that the scene was from an episode of “Hammer House of Horror,” specifically the none-too-ambiguously titled “The House That Bled to Death.”That’s where my interest in anthology television comes from.
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