AKA Moments of Terror. The first edition – No Such Thing as a Vampire – of a new horror anthology series, with suitably unsettling title music by Dick Mills.
“Title Music:the BBC Radiophonic Workshop”
According to the tape archive, there were two versions of this piece. TRW 6680 was “not used” and TRW 6680/A was used. This was logged as far back as June 1967. The following month Clive Webster logged another tape for Late Night Horror. This was for the episode The Bells of Hell broadcast on 17th May. Confusingly this was called The Bells of Hell: Ringing The Changes in the archive.
Late Night Horror was included on Out Of This World – Atmospheric Sounds & Effects from The BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1976) in the side 2 section called Suspense and the Supernatural. As with many of the other tracks it was renamed. Moments of Terror was more helpful as a sound effect title.
Late Night Horror featured innovative opening titles by Charles McGhie, now included in the BBC Motion Graphics Archive.
https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/late-night-horror-1968
The entirety of the original Late Night Horror colour video tapes were wiped by the early seventies. The above clip existed only on a showreel of BBC titles. So far only a black and white film of episode three – The Corpse Can’t Play has been found by Kaleidoscope who also uploaded a promo clip from earlier in the evening where Valentine Dyall advises the more sensitive viewers to avoid the show. “So don’t say you haven’t been warned”
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a24cc5121951f4f013bb170188101fd2
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