A lady with no previous theatrical experience receives a brilliant play telepathically from an actor who has been dead for 50 years. When she tries to take full credit for the play, the real author asserts himself. She asks that her name be pulled from the marquis on opening night claiming that the spirit of the long dead actor is actually the writer.

Set during the California gold rush, a snowbound prospector is saved by an Eskimo witch who has the power to heal and kill by magic. He takes her as his wife and brings her back to the states. When his political importance grows, he decides he needs to be rid of the savage.

The story that Launched the career of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes' and Watson's first case together involves a murderer who leaves behind an engagement ring and the word RACHE scrawled in blood.

Based on a Joseph Conrad story, two ivory hunters are stranded in the Congo. One of them is ill with fever in the heat and humidity. The isolation takes a toll on them. They slowly go mad and die.

A man is having an affair with his business partner's wife. They scheme to get rid of his partner's mother, who finds out about the affair, and the partner himself in order to collect on business insurance and marry each other.

A private detective is brought in by an unattractive woman's brother to investigate her fiance. Her brother suspects that he really wants her money.

An expectant father and gambling addict swears off gambling after a big loss. But when he loses his job, he returns to the track to try to earn a living playing the ponies.

A curse befalls a New Mexico town in the 1850's where children die and women no longer bear children. The town's mayor seeks a solution to the problem and discovers a horror from his past.

A skeptic attends a seance with his wife and his boss. He is the sensitive who is able to bring the spirits to the material world. But the gift has a price.

A swindler tries to convince an art appraiser to declare his counterfeit painting to be real and worth millions.