After the suicide of the previous tenant, Terry, Rob is accepted to the Highberger House, where he has strange encounters with a beautiful girl, Valerie (Clare Grant), who asks for his help.

Valerie asks Rob to save her from the Beast (Tony Todd), but is violently captured and taken inside a wall by a dark supernatural force.

This results in more intense episodes of Rob yelling at the wall, which makes the other tenants angrier, except for Bruce and the old Everett Neely (Christopher Lloyd).

Rob discovers a manuscript titled Valerie on the Stairs written by Bruce, Patricia and Everett.

Jon Condit of Dread Central rated the episode 1/5, stating that, "To put it succinctly (and please pardon the cheese), watching 'Valerie on the Stairs' is as about as enjoyable as falling down a flight.

Club wrote, "Not even the presence of horror stalwart Tony Todd can liven up 'Valerie On The Stairs,' a dull treatise on the power of the written word.

"[3] Ian Jane of DVD Talk opined that, despite a good premise, quality source material and standout performances from Todd and Lloyd, "The movie just feels limp, the story doesn't have the impact it needs to really hit home and it doesn't move fast enough for us to look past this even if there are moments where it looks like it's trying.