A cad makes a living off of meeting women in the cemetary when they are visiting the graves of their dead husbands. He proposes to them and then swindles them.
A woman who claims to be the daughter of the goddess Dagon recounts for her biographer how she brought down several men who underestimated her.
Ed Larsen has been having a recurring dream in which he is viciously attacked in his favorite bar by a faceless killer. Mark Howgate, a stranger to Ed, is having the same dream on the same nights. When the two men finally meet, they decide to act out the dream in order to find the faceless murderer and put an end to their nightmares. The real nightmare, however, is just beginning.
A painter is commissioned to paint a portrait of the prospective bride of the notorious King Henry VIII who has not yet laid eyes on her. He must decide if he will paint her as a stunning goddess, or paint her as his eyes behold her.
In 19th century London, a Zulu War veteran is plagued by visions of people on a train who no one else notices. Are they real people tormenting him or is he suffering from shell shock?
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A retired cop stops an immigrant shop owner from killing himself, then helps him nail the gangsters that are ruining his business.
A man, his wife, her lover, and the couple next door are forced into a bomb shelter when world events cause a nuclear war. The owner of the shelter plays the residents of this refuge against each other for his own amusement and revenge.
A young college professor is invited to her mentor's mansion to study with him. When she gets there, she finds that he has disappeared. The servants give different excuses and varying reasons for his absence. She is suspicious.
A novelist visiting some old friends at a country estate witnesses the figure of what appears to be a spectre of a woman in the fog haunting the misty old pond. It puts him onto an old mystery involving a woman who disappeared nearby.
A sheriff has problems imposing the death penalty when he is asked to carry out a hanging. When his overbearing wife pushes him to do it, he decides to help the prisoner escape.