The cast in this one!

Dr. Alan Goetz (David Warner) hosts Good Psychology, a show where he discusses the issues of parents with their children. Often, he tells them that they should ignore their children when he isn’t screaming at them,. That said, he never really gives much good advice, which is why the station’s owner Rona (Joan Severance) is planning on replacing him with a shock jock named Lothar (Robert Patrick). Dr. Alan, however, has a plan to get ratings. A call from a regular named Nora (Zelda Rubinstein) leads to him offering to broadcast live from her home, bring along Rona and his producer Bonnie (Twiggy).

Nora’s daughter Felicity (played by Laura Dash and Aytl Jensen) wears a white porcelain mask, screams like an animal and has booby trapped the entire place. Dr. Alan thinks that she’s another personality of Nora. It remains to be seen if he’s correct.

“It’s- it’s just like that nightmare I told you about! The one I keep having when I’m petting Bambi! You’ve got to help me, doc! I’m losing my mind! I can’t seem to take a joke anymore! I mean, a choke! I mean… It’s like the man in tonight’s tale. He’s a head shrinker who’s about to undergo a little final analysis of his own, in a paranoid parable I call: “The New Arrival.””

Nora has a library with books by every child psychologist who ever lived, including a few who have mysteriously died. That’s because she’s brought so many of them here to try and reach her daughter — who died forty years ago and remains a zombie — and they starve to death while she plays with them. Their books remain.

Man, what a wild story. This was directed by Peter Medak, who also made The Changeling. It was written by Ron Finley, who scripted five episodes of Tales from the Crypt.

This was based on “The New Arrival” from Haunt of Fear #25. It was written by Otto Binder and drawn by Graham Ingels. It’s very different from this episode, as it’s about a woman who keeps kidnapping people to become her new baby.