En sen aften ankommer liget af en ukendt kvinde til lighuset i en lille by i Virginia. Far og søn retsmedicinerne Austin og Tommy Tilden skal undersøge den døde krop nærmere, da liget er fundet under mystiske omstændigheder og ikke viser det mindste tegn på vold. Austin og Tommy begynder deres arbejder, men efterhånden som aftenen skrider frem, går det op for dem, at der er noget helt galt med dette lig. Der er noget HELT galt!
Da de ansatte på et lager med lægemidler ved et uheld genopliver et lig - og derefter prøver at "dræbe" det igen - vækker de meget mere end dets uslukkelige tørst efter liv. For da de endelig får parteret og brændt det stadigt levende lig, drysser dets aske ned over en nærliggende kirkegård og åbner gravene for en hel hær af kødædende zombier!
På grund af sønnens alvorlige sygdom flytter familien Campbell til Connecticut, for at være i nærheden af et behandlingssted. De er heldige og finder et imponerende stort hus til en overkommelig pris. Ejendomsmægleren forklarer, at huset har en særlig historie, men familien har ikke i deres vildeste fantasi forestillet sig at deres nye hjem skal vise sig at være en dødsfælde, hvor fortidens ondeste ånder residerer. Hjemsøgt - The Haunting in Connecticut er baseret på sande hændelser om et hus der hjemsøges af afdøde menneskers ånder.
Casey kan bare ikke vinde. Han overfaldes på gaden, ydmyges på jobbet, og hans mandighed trues endda af hans hund. Han tilmelder sig en lokal karate-dojo under ledelse af den gådefulde Sensei for at lære at forsvare sig. Under træningen bliver Casey ven med en kvindelig instruktør, og snart er han hvirvlet ind i en bizar verden af outsidere, ritualer og ustyrlig hyper-maskulinitet.
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
An eccentric millionaire dies at a manor in Dalarna in Sweden, leaving behind three sons and a mistress. One of four parallel stories about parents and children. Four sides of Sweden. Four shades of brown.
Following the death of their grandmother, brother and sister Glen and Nancy take her body to be cremated, only to discover a sinister and terrifying secret lurking in the waters below the crematorium
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or seen her.
A failed musician takes a job at his uncle's pet crematorium.