Directed by a big name — John Frankenheimer — and written by Mae Woods (her only script, she mainly worked as a producer and as Walter Hill’s assistant), this predates the true crime world of these days as a librarian named Margaret (Blythe Danner) becomes obsessed with a serial killer.

“City life got you down, kiddies? Looking for a home on derange? Well, look no further because I’ve got exactly what you want. It’s a charming tomb with a view. Think of it as your own little house on the scary. You’re not interested? What’s the matter? Afraid you can’t get a morgue-age? Oh well, that’s exactly how the woman in tonight’s tortured tale feels. She’s upset because there’s a killer loose in her neighborhood. In a putrid property I call Maniac at Large.””

This episode has quite the cast, include Clarence Williams III, Adam Ant, Salome Jens (The Foolkiller), Irwin Keyes and Harper Roisman (the mountain man who nurses Michael Myers back to health in Halloween 5). It gives Danner the chance to lose her mind as she starts to believe that she’s been locked in the library with the killer.

This episode was based on “Maniac at Large” in Shock SuspenStories #27. It was written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by George Evans.