A dinner party for Bill Stockton's birthday is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare, they turn against the Stockton's, the only family that installed a bomb shelter.
While headed home at the Civil War's end, a Confederate Sergeant meets anguished Lavinia Godwin, who is convinced that her husband Jud is now deceased.
Frustrated pool champion Jesse Cardiff has beaten everyone except for the deceased James Howard "Fats" Brown. Jesse can only curse his name. But guess who just walked into the pool room on Randolph Street?
Central American revolutionary Ramos Clemente receives a gift from General De Cruz, the tyrant that Ramos deposed: a mirror that shows Ramos images of his potential assassins.
After being hired to track down outlaw Pinto Sykes but failing, Old West lawman Conny Miller is challenged by the townsmen who killed Sykes to visit Sykes' freshly dug grave and prove how courageous he is.
On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
Former German SS Captain Gunther Lutze returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing about the power he enjoyed there during "the good old days", until he finds himself on trial by the ghosts of those who died at his hands.
When Earth deviates from its normal orbit and moves closer to the sun, painter Norma and her landlady Mrs. Bronson try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned New York City.
In June 1863, Confederate scout Joseph Paradine come across an elderly warlock named Teague, whose book of black magic can help bring victory to the Southern cause inn the Civil War.
Engineer Alan Richards who has recently come home to New York City from his company's controversial hydroelectric project in Africa is plagued by both superstitions and the dire warnings of a native witch doctor.
An Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.
On the last day of World War II in the Pacific, hot-shot new Lieutenant Katell tries to make his mark on military history and receives a unique perspective on his actions.
Elderly urban dweller Wanda Dunn has fought with Death a thousand times and always won. Now she is afraid to let wounded policeman Harold Beldon in her tenement's door for fear that he is Death incarnate. Is he?
Millionaire Paul Radin tries to convince three people who wronged him in the past to apologize to him by offering them shelter from a staged and phony nuclear war scenario.
Homeless Nathan Edward Bledsoe steals expensive shoes off of dead gangster Dane's abandoned body, steps into Dane's life, and plans third-party revenge on Dane's killer, his traitorous former business partner Daggett.
Overbearing Western TV series star Rance McGrew is transported back in time to the real Wild West and comes face-to-face with the real Jesse James, who is not happy about how he and his fellow outlaws are being portrayed on Rance's show.
Charles Whitley living in the Sunnyvale Rest Home thinks he's found the secret of youth in playing child's games and exhorts his fellow seniors into joining in. His friend Ben Conroy and facility superintendent Cox want this stopped.
Sadistic theatre critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a gift for his wife Esther's birthday: a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it play. He then uses it to provide "entertainment" for her birthday party.
Young Southerner Jefferson Myrtlebank wakes up during his own funeral and wants to know what is going on. The townsfolk are glad to see him back, but they begin to wonder if he's a man - or something else.
An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. Linguists Michael Chambers, Patricia Brody, and their team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."
Young lame Jenny and the other neighborhood kids don't realize that their kind playmate Old Ben is really an intergalactic fugitive hiding out - until two serious men come looking for him and asking questions that test their friendship.
Awakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished - even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.
After a night of excess drinking during a neighbor's party, bank teller David Andrew Gurney wakes up to another ordinary day. Except today, nobody knows who he is - including his own wife Wilma.
After crash landing on a seemingly desolate planet, astronauts Bill Fletcher and Peter Craig find a society of very small beings. While Fletcher repairs the spaceship, Craig becomes a megalomaniac and decides to rule their society.
Obsessed Oliver Crangle wants to expose vice in the world, investigating people that he sees as evil, and then attempting to ruin their lives. His plan is to punish them all by an unspecified means at 4:00 this afternoon.
Rural gas station attendant Somerset Frisby, who is given to telling tall tales about himself, is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's leading intellects.
Elderly long-married John and Marie Holt visit the New Life Corporation to shop for a pair of younger replacement bodies. But then John resorts to desperate measures in order to cover the immense cost of this purchase.
Ventriloquist Jerry Etherson is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He locks Willie in a trunk and makes plans for a new act with a new dummy. Too bad he didn't clear those plans with Willie first.
Recent widower George Rogers, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of his children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.
Inept apprentice guardian angel Harmon Cavender is chastised by his superior and given a final chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.
Having being forced to retire after teaching for fifty-one years in a New England university for boys, Professor Ellis Fowler contemplates suicide when he doesn't feel that he's made a positive difference in the world.