The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
Príbeh sa odohráva v súčasnom New Yorku a jeho hlavnou postavou je mladý anglický lekár Guy Luthan, ktorý sa vďaka záhadnej smrti bezdomovca, ktorého pred smrťou ošetroval, dostane na stopu nevhodných lekárskych experimentov na ľuďoch. Tie na nič netušiacich bezdomovcoch vykonáva úspešný neurológ doktor Myrick s cieľom nájsť liek na regeneráciu nervov a liečbu paraplegikov. Pracuje pre spoločnosť Triphas, financovanú rodinami paraplegikov, ktoré sú ochotné za zdravie svojich blízkych zabíjať. Niet divu, že sa doktor Luthan ocitne v ohrození života, keď...
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
High school senior Stacey has a frightening nightmare that just might come true. Christina, the new girl in school...
A wandering cowboy and his sidekick try to resolve a murder.
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
A postman in a small mountain village finds a woman and her son both dead in the "grotte aux loups" (cave of wolves). He soon begins to realize than it's not natural death, and that someone in the village in behind their murder, while tragic events occur.