Oh Godzilla. I think I have read this story, though not watched the show. It was in one of those big "A Century of Ghost Stories" anthologies that came out in the fifties and sixties, despite not exactly being a ghost story. They didn't know what else to call it, I assume, so they sandwiched it in between "Ahoy, Sailor Boy!" and T.H. White's "The Troll." The author's style was severe and unemotional in the extreme, much like Robert Aickmann.

I would give much for the story and show actually to be real. Someone on one of those graymarket video duping sites probably has a copy, complete with godawful seventies wine commercials. Peter Cushing, by that point in his life, looked so worn and unhappy that I feel bad for saying this, but it really works well for the part. Big eyes; vampire eyes, I would say if I didn't like him as an actor.

Given a non-weird fiction writer, he could be the guy in a thousand works of literary fiction who draws new life from a deeply inappropriate affair with his student/the next-door neighbor's sexpot daughter/a manic pixie dream girl. Only there are no answers here and no fulfillment of any kind.