Sorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Arabic source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being flayed over burning coals and slowly dismembered.
After her sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent returns home, only to hear Marian - a dancer - tapping across the floor upstairs in the room where she died.
Bumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead - but she hasn't died yet. / A photographer meets a vampire.
Executive Bradley Meredith is responsible for the unsolved murder of a go-go dancer, so the victim's vindictive grandfather Old Man Doubleday invites him to the family's dilapidated old farmhouse, which comes complete with a pack of wild dogs.
Charlie Finnegan is serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary and longs to escape. Fellow prisoner Pete Tuttle tries to help him, with the aid of his talent for hypnosis.
Newly widowed Henry Auden is happy living alone, but the best friend of his deceased wife decides to provide him with some company in the form of her orange tabby cat Jennet.
A lonely woman named Hyacinth lives on a barge anchored in a canal, is marooned by her fear of crossing running water, and sleeps during the day - in a coffin.
To keep his wife Irene, young Charlie Evans gives up his job to cross the country, as she seeks out spirits of the dead to possess her for temporary thrills.
In the British West Indies, plantation owner Alex Brandon is humiliated on his wedding day when his bride Sheila Trent is enticed into the arms of her former suitor Raphael. So he plots revenge with the help of an Obeah High Priest's knowledge of voodoo.
On the Kenyan veldt, a wild gorilla named N'Gi disrupts the marital harmony between anthropologists Ruth and Grant Wilson./In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.