Taking advantage of the naivety and ignorance of the people of Kafiristan, the British soldiers Daniel and Peachi present the locals with evidence of their divine origin and rise to the highest levels of power.

Harold is the son of Mrs. Chazen, a wealthy woman who pays him no attention. Suffering from depression and a lack of friends, he stages carefully planned but ridiculous suicide attempts that fail to make any impression on his distracted mother. Fascinated by death and all its trappings, Harold drives around the cemeteries near town in an old hearse. At two funerals in a row, he meets Maude, a 79-year-old woman who survived a concentration camp and is as fascinated by life as Harold is by death. Free-spirited, she is the polar opposite of the solemn and self-important Harold. Nevertheless, they become best friends, and she instills in him a desire to live, to spread his wings, and to enjoy his brief time on Earth. As time goes by, they go on several funny and wild adventures together, and their friendship blossoms into love—much to the dismay of Harold’s mother.

Chip Douglas, the cable installer, is a guy with his quirks. After meeting Steven Kovach, he wants to become his best friend. As he gets to know Chip better, Steven realizes that this friendship could have serious consequences and decides to get rid of his new acquaintance. But that won’t be easy at all.

Two couples are traveling through the American heartland in search of adventure. And wouldn’t you know it on Halloween of all days, they stumble upon a mysterious museum of monsters and psychos: “Captain Spalding’s House of Horrors.” Intrigued by a local legend told to them by the museum owner about a maniac nicknamed Dr. Satan, the brave tourists set out to find the tree where he was lynched. But in the pouring rain, on a dark, winding road, their car stalls, and they decide to wait out the night in an old, abandoned house.

“Linda, Linda, Linda” is the title of a hit song by the legendary Japanese rock band The Blue Hearts, which the girls in the school band decide to cover for a music festival. But three days before the performance, the band nearly breaks up. Just as they’re about to give up hope, Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi meet a Korean girl named Son and convince her to become their lead singer.

Richard, a young playwright from Chicago, unexpectedly receives an antique watch from an unknown elderly woman along with the message, “Come back to me,” but he doesn’t think much of it. A few years later, he accidentally finds a photograph of actress Alice McKenna taken in 1912 and realizes that she is the very woman from whom he received the watch eight years earlier. Using a theory about time travel through self-hypnosis, Richard meets her face to face...

The year is 1857. The crew of a Danish ship stranded in the northern ice rescues a wounded man from a human-like monster that cannot be killed. The man tells the captain his story: his name is Victor Frankenstein, he is the son of a famous doctor, and ever since childhood he has harbored the idea of bringing dead flesh back to life. He gained the opportunity to conduct all manner of experiments in this field when the uncle of Victor’s younger brother’s fiancée offered him unlimited funding.

World War I. In a small Irish coastal village, Rosie Ryan, the daughter of a local innkeeper and the wife of a reserved schoolteacher, begins an affair with a young British officer who has arrived to investigate links between the IRA and German forces.

New York, early 1960s. Manhattan’s bohemian neighborhoods and the tobacco-smoke-filled small clubs, the dusty roads of America, and massive vinyl pressings. Lewin Davis, a folk singer and guitarist, barely scrapes by between gigs at Greenwich Village clubs and occasional radio appearances. Homeless and penniless, entangled in love, and having nearly lost touch with his family, he wanders through life in search of himself.

Humberto Humberto, an immigrant from Europe who had recently arrived in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, devised a cunning plan amid a whirlwind of emotions. He intends to marry Charlotte Hayes. That way, he’ll always be able to be close to his beloved—Charlotte’s charming daughter!