A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

Lucas, a writer without ideas, receives an unexpected visit from his neighbors.

A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.