El dueño de una funeraria de una pequeña localidad y su hijo, que trabaja con él, reciben un día el cadáver de la víctima de un misterioso crimen: una bella joven que no tiene ninguna causa aparente de muerte. Ambos intentarán desvelar los intrigantes motivos del fallecimiento de la joven.

A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.

A finales del siglo XIX, un hombre llega a una aldea remota para investigar el ataque de un animal salvaje, pero descubre una fuerza mucho más grande y siniestra que tiene a la mansión y a sus habitantes sometidos.

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a present containing a page of his book, and a bone from his editor. Together with the police, Palmer tries to find his editor, who might still be alive. In addition, his own son becomes one of the main suspects. Written by Julian Reischl

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.