En cavale avec un sac d'argent volé, Marion Crane, une jeune femme sans histoire, s'arrête au motel Bates pour y passer la nuit. Ainsi commence son cauchemar...
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
Duke Marsden is a compulsive gambler and is about to lose his wife because of it. She gives him an ultimatum to either give up poker or else she's gone. He agrees, but there's one last thing he has to do first.
A beautiful young newlywed is wary of her much-older husband's business trip leaving her alone in their beach house. A group of beach boys and a neighboring screenwriter provide her some company, unwanted by the husband. When a man knocks on her door at night asking for help, she turns him away, leading to tragic consequences.
A childless young couple are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new home. Is the next-door neighbor boy's cruelty to them just a youngster rebelling against his blue-collar, strict father? The husband's empathy for the boy drives a dangerous wedge into their marriage.
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.