The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
An intelligent, fearless boy living in a superstitious Transylvanian village goes out into the world to figure out what everyone else is afraid of, "the shivers." A king hires him to rid his castle of ghosts and evil spirits, expecting him to die like all who have tried before him, but the boy is more fearless than he could have known.
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Family, TV Movie
- Studio: Platypus Productions, Gaylord Productions
- Keyword: fairy tale, fear, ghost, based on fairy tale, fearless, faerie tale theatre
- Cast: Peter MacNicol, Christopher Lee, Dana Hill, David Warner, Frank Zappa, Vincent Price