A struggling young writer develops a friendship with a Spanish physician with a most curious ailment- an aversion to heat... Adapted from the short story by H.P. Lovecraft.
A two-timing, larcenous 1940's swing band leader steals a forbidden Far East melody and uses it as the basis for a hit song- only to find out too late just why it is forbidden.
A scholar is hired by a practitioner of the dark arts to decipher a very special passage from the dread Necronomicon - Adapted from the short story by Clark Ashton Smith.
When an all-too-perfect newcomer to a small town enters the local cooking contest, her rivals become suspicious about her entry- specifically, what might be in it.
Eager to marry the niece of a Hungarian count, a young man agrees to sleep in a room that was once the scene of a murder - Adapted from the short story by John Dickson Carr.
A pair of Borscht Belt comics find themselves kidnapped by extraterrestrials and forced into competition in an arena. At stake: their lives- and those of the entire human race.
A pair of New England bodysnatchers are determined to obtain a corpse- no matter where they have to go in their pursuit - Adapted from the short story by Henry Kuttner.
When rival soap opera actresses come into conflict over a role, they decide to settle their long-standing feud with a bet involving a substantial check- and a very sharp axe.
Two soldiers-of-fortune, marooned deep in the desert, stumble across a city of legend- and the unspeakable, ancient evil it houses... Adapted from the short story by Robert E. Howard.
A lovely but haunted woman picks up an unsuspecting man in a bar, then drugs and kidnaps him. What she has planned is revenge, served up cold as the grave...
A Frenchman believes that his very life is being destroyed by an invisible being that stalks him. But is it all in his mind?... Adapted from the short story by Guy de Maupassant.
The dysfunctional family of an elderly perfume mogul gathers at her deathbed. But little do they know just how far she is willing to go in order to protect her legacy- even from her own children...
A researcher uses a mystical drug to travel backwards in time. But what he finds there is a horror beyond imagining... Adapted from the short story by Frank Belknap Long.
A grieving torch singer returns to the nightclub where she once worked, wearing a mourning veil as she waits night after night for the return of her low-life mobster lover...
On a rainy Saturday afternoon, a proper English family finds itself debating what to do with an uninvited guest on the sunporch... Adapted from the short story by John Collier.
Two bank tellers, on the lam for theft and an accidental homicide, flee to the wilds of upper New York state, en route to Canada and freedom. But they aren't the only creatures stalking those woods...
An Antarctic research expedition finds something frozen deep in the ice cap- something that is still alive... Adapted from the short story by John W. Campbell.
Young honeymooners take refuge from a storm in a decaying Southern mansion. But the inhabitants, behind their congeniality, appear to be harboring a dark secret...
An insurance investigator dealing with a rash of fires in Manhattan begins to suspect that the pyromaniac is his own wife... Adapted from the short story by Cornell Woolrich.
An aging guitar legend, dying and wracked with guilt over the suicide of his devoted wife, challenges Satan to cut heads- with his own soul as the stakes...
The subway tunnels beneath New York City are home to a special police squad- and the cosmic horror it protects humanity from... Adapted from the short story by Robert Barbour Johnson.
When a nebbish volunteers to test a fully computerized home, he soon finds that it is willing to assist with every facet of his life- though sometimes just a bit too literally...
Two brothers dare to spend the night in an abandoned Southern mansion that lays under a hideous curse... Adapted from the short story by Robert E. Howard.
A priceless pair of emeralds are the key to warming U.S./Hungarian relations during the Cold War, but cat burglar/burlesque star Kitty Divine has them in her sights...
Newlyweds rent a house in the hills above Hollywood, only to find that it has a closet that cannot be opened- at least, not from the outside... Adapted from the radio play by Robert L. Richards.
A down-and-out prostitute is given the choice of either kill or be killed- a choice that becomes all the more difficult when she learns that her intended victim is her father...