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Screenplay by Emlyn Williams titled Beyond Belief, based on a 1967 book of the same name by Williams, together with a later edited and revised version of the script by Emlyn Williams' son Brook Williams and the film's director Roy Ward Baker, both book and screenplay chronicling the events behind the infamous Moors Murders carried out in and around Manchester by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965. Also included are a synopsis of the original events of the Moors Murders; letters from Brook Williams, Roy Ward Baker and producer Andrew Montgomery; critical evaluation of both book and screenplay; biographical details relating to Emlyn Williams, Roy Ward Baker and Andrew Montgomery; and details of expenses relating to the making of the film.

Letters, 1966-1967, 1975, to the author and playwright Emlyn Williams from David Smith, brother-in-law of infamous Moors murderer Myra Hindley. Williams spent time with David Smith and his wife Maureen in order to gain insight into the lives of Myra Hindley and her partner Ian Brady for his 1967 novel Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection, a semi-fictionalised account of the criminal activities of Brady and Hindley. The novel was published a year after Brady and Hindley were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of five children aged between ten and seventeen in and around Manchester between July 1963 and October 1965. David Smith, who witnessed at least one of the murders, was the chief prosecution witness at Brady and Hindley's trial.