Un home esgotat per la Primera Guerra Mundial accepta una feina de faroner a l'illa de Janus per fugir del món. Coneix una dona jove i bonica amb qui s'acaba casant. La dona té dos avortaments naturals i cau en una profunda depressió. Un dia veuen un bot de rems a la deriva, que porta un home i una criatura acabada de néixer. Corren a rescatar-los però es troben que l'home és mort. Dubten sobre si informar-ne o no i quedar-se l'infant, que finalment és el que fan. No és fins anys més tard que descobreixen que la criatura encara té una mare que l'està buscant.

Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.

Aquesta història, basada en l’antic mite celta del selkie, parla de dos nens, Ben i Saoirse, que viuen en un far a la vora del mar amb el seu pare, Conor, encara consternat per la pèrdua de la seva dona uns anys abans.

A la costa de Califòrnia s'alça el pintoresc centre turístic d'Antonio Bay. Mentre els residents es preparen per a les celebracions del centenari de la ciutat, la tripulació d'un vell vaixell apareix brutalment assassinada. Al mateix temps, al mar, una misteriosa boira que amaga un mortífer secret comença a desplaçar-se inexorablement cada nit cap a la costa. Segons una llegenda local, aquests esdeveniments estranys estan aparentment relacionats amb un terrible esdeveniment succeït fa cent anys. A mesura que s'aproxima el dia del centenari l'horror s'acosta al clímax.

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.

Quan la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) s'acosta al final, per a una jove francesa està a punt de començar la més cruel de les batalles. Mathilde ha rebut la notícia que el seu promès Manech és un dels cinc soldats ferits que, després d'haver estat sotmesos a un consell de guerra, han estat enviats a la terra de ningú que hi ha entre l'exèrcit francès i l'alemany, cosa que suposa una mort gairebé segura. Mathilde, que es nega a acceptar aquesta situació, emprèn un viatge extraordinari per conèixer el destí del seu promès. Les notícies que va rebent sobre Manech són descoratjadores. Tot i així, animada per una fe i una esperança infrangibles i també per un gran optimisme, segueix la seva investigació fins al final. A mesura que s'acosta a la veritat sobre els desafortunats soldats i el seu càstig brutal, es veu més embolicada en els horrors de la guerra i en les marques indelebles que deixa en els qui l'han viscuda.

Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're trying to rescue the French Ambassador -- there's a coup going on. Some of John's soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. He heads back to the US and visits Radio's wife Shondra to tells her the news, and then promises that he'll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped.

Tres faroners arriben a una illa abandonada. Thomas, James i Donald comencen les seves rutines, fins que passa una cosa inesperada: topen amb una cosa estranya, cosa que no és exactament el que un faroner hauria de vigilar. Les coses es complicaran quan albirin un vaixell que podria tenir totes les respostes, desencadenant un thriller psicològic basat en la llegenda de l'illa de Flannan.

En una illa perduda enmig de l'oceà, dos homes es defensen, nit rere nit, protegits en un far, del setge d'unes estranyes criatures marines. Sotmesos a l'extrema tensió, sense entendre les raons de l'atac, hauran de replantejar-se com enfrontar-se al desconegut. La captivitat i la contínua lluita per la supervivència porten a un viatge al centre de les entranyes de l'illa, on es barreja lucidesa i alienació, rebuig i desig, crueltat i amor cap al desconegut.

Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.

A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.

In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan, Susannah's brutal cousin.

A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.

Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

After being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the island, and that getting discovered could be deadly.

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.

Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more picturesque about their new, seaside home… that is, except for the increasing number of aggressively behaving birds.