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An eccentric flamboyant critic, who's staying at a lodge in the Irish woods, makes a bet with a mild-mannered skeptical writer, that the legend about the sad banshee haunting the forest searching for her lover is real.

Two drifters, Robert and William, stumble across a desert mirage while evading their nemesis, Ned. The two men soon realize that the mirage shows each viewer the city where they'd like to be, and start selling views.

A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the past to kill dinosaurs. They only have one rule that's there to protect the time line: Never ever get off the beaten path. Violation of this rule is punishable by hefty fines.

A ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.

An archaeologist on Mars goes berserk and takes the side of the extinct Martian race.

An insecure man begins to suspect that the mushrooms his son ordered from a boy's magazine and is growing in the basement may be alien invaders.

The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.

Greentown, Illnois is in the midst of the "desperate empties," the doldrums that come at the tail-end of summer. To bring some excitement to the town, twelve-year-old Charlie helps the rascally Colonel Stonesteel bury a fake mummy to be uncovered at the Labor Day parade in an elaborate hoax.

Walter Bayes creates a likelike animatronic Abraham Lincoln, and a man named Booth "assassinates" the robot to gain notoriety.

The charming Clara Goodwater has been the president of the town's Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge for as long as anyone can remember. Her nosy rival Elmira Brown is convinced Clara maintains her position through witchcraft and plans to exorcise her at the upcoming Lodge election.

A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind them up in the new garbage disposal that he bought for her.

At a masquerade party, a lonely man dressed as comedian Oliver Hardy is about to leave, when he meets a woman costumed as Hardy's comic partner Stan Laurel. Captivated with each other, they run off into the night. They stay in love and in their fantasy, until the man muses if this dream can last? The woman suggests they see, by playing a game she calls Gotcha.

Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect with the "great wide world over there" by sending and receiving mail.

A 12-year-old boy discovers that he can't grow up. He later turns this bizarre affliction into sort of a lonely profession.

Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.

After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.

Mysterious Fantoccini offers an unhappy overworked suburbanite husband the services of his high tech company. He'll be replaced by a robot duplicate both at home and work. However, the man becomes jealous of his perfect double.

The first Earth visitors to Mars discover a replica of small town America, just as they remembered it from their childhoods.

A nurse accompanies a "dying" ghost on a train ride across Europe to Great Britain in search of a place of refuge where people still believe in the supernatural.

George Hill is stunned when he is sentenced to death--for murdering a robot facsimile of his adulterous young wife.

A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is not what he was expecting.

A hypochondriac feels there is something wrong with his bones so he consults a creepy "bone specialist" who promises to help him; sometimes the cure really is worse than the disease.

A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years later--the next step is not very clear.

An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the filming because he resents his life being treated as a colorful prop by these arrogant interlopers.

An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." In this challenge runners compete to see who can get out of the theater fastest during the pause between the end of the film and the start of the Irish national anthem and this time the stakes are the American's first edition of Joyce versus the pub's Sean O'Casey autographed playbill.