A wimpy mama's boy marries an assertive woman who nurtures a man-eating plant, hemo anderantus, which seems to have a life of its own. She uses her predatory plant to advance her goals. Her husband is exceedingly unnerved when his tormenters start to disappear.
A widower banker, who is an aspiring artist, and his mother-in-law live in a house that may be haunted by his dead wife. He is terribly upset when a picture of he and his wife that was taken on their wedding day inexplicably moves around the house. He takes a number of measures to find out what is going on.
A scientist's son comes home from college on spring break and discloses that he is actually an alien from another dimension holding their real son hostage. He demands that he be allowed to take the scientist's wife back to his dimension to repopulate it.
Adaptation
An accountant accidently gets lured into a money laundering scheme by his best friend. What he doesn't know is that his best friend is working with his wife and they both want him dead.
A 17-year-old girl disappears while on a visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her cousin and her boyfriend engage a Hatian police detective to search for her. They suspect a kidnapping and ritual sacrifice but encounter the most bizarre and suspicious of circumstances.
A menacing child torments his uncle and aunt while they babysit him for a week. Is he a child or something much more malovent?
A woman buys her husband a set of antique Chinese bells, one of which rings on its own. When it rings, good fortune finds one person while death finds another.
Adaptation
A female fiction writer finds that everybody with whom she becomes angry befalls misfortune — including death. She believes she has the evil eye — the ability to harm those who get in her way. Her husband, who is having an affair with her agent, contrives a scheme to take advantage of her talent.
To relax, a stressed-out businessman takes up 'rhapsodic meditation.' While meditating, he has visions of his wife having an affair. He is also visited by an ethereal temptress who would have him leave this plane of existence for her.
A cold-blooded assassin is pursued by a district attorney determined to bring him to justice for the murder of a witness. When the attorney ends up dead, he flees to his next assignment which is to pose as the long lost son of a kindly, elderly woman.