13 episodes in two seasons developed between 1975 and 1976 competently written and directed by Jose Antonio Paramo. Because of the title : The firth horseman of the Apocalypse turns out to be the Fear. Dealing with classic terror stories mostly written by famous foreign writers as Wilkie Collins , Tolstoi , Edgar Allan Poe , Sheridan Le Fanu, Leonid Andreyev, E. T. Hoffman, Henry James , Prosper Merimee, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas de Quincey, and Gustavo Adolfo Becker. Being adapted by Enrique Braso, Angela Duerto and Jose Antonio Paramo himself.
A splendid horror series including supernatural happenings , mystery , suspense, fantasy , tension , plot twists and terrifying events. It displays a frightening and eerie musical score, including a sinister leitmotif
heard at the beginning and finish of the series. As well as evocative cinematography by cameraman Rafael Casenave, and there are episodes in modern times and resulting to be better chapters those set in XIX Century.
The series was well starred by the best main and secondary Spanish cast at the time, such as : Francisco Valladares, Carlos Estrada, Eusebio Poncela , Agustin Gonzalez, Fernando Cebrian, Carmen Maura, Jaime Blanch , Teresa Gimpera, Charo Lopez, Luis Marin, Alfonso Del Real, Jose Maria Pou, Tota Alba, Jose Orjas, Manuel De Blas, Amparo Baro, Eduardo Calvo, Narciso Ibañez Menta, Victor Israel, Angel Alvarez, Tito Garcia and many others. Standing out the following chapters : Mister George , The Black Cat , Coppelius , The Witch , Aullido, Demonio, The Dream's woman, Madame Crowl, Renta espectral, Los Dados, Vourdalak. Some of them already had previous and notorious cinematic adaptations, as Roger Corman made Black Cat written by Edgar Allan Poe , Mario Bava directed Vourdalak written by Tolstoi and Robert Wise shot The Body Snatchers written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
