Valerie on the Stairs

Valerie on the Stairs is the eighth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. Rob Hanisey is an unsuccessful writer who has long overdue bills and rent, and, as flashbacks suggest, has been dumped by his girlfriend Anna . He - after the suicide of the previous tenant, Terry - is accepted to the Highberger House which, according to its supervisor Nancy Bloom , was bought by a rich philanthropist in the 1930s, to provide rent-free accommodation for unpublished writers, but strictly only until their first book gets published.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 , who asks for his help. At the beginning Rob assumes she's a ghost. The other tenants - especially Patricia Dunbar - are annoyed with him and the noise he makes when chasing Valerie the ghost. Only Bruce Sweetland remains friendly, seemingly not making a big deal out of this strange acclimatization.
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