Milan. During a sadomasochistic game, a prostitute strangles a man in his own home. Soon after, an elderly woman is killed with a wrench on an empty bus. In each case, the killer leaves an illustration from the children's book Pierino-Porcospino at the scene of the crime. This is the eighth murder in the last 24 hours. Police Lieutenant Gaspar Lorenzo is investigating the cases. He meets a girl named Jeanne, who tells him about the strange accidental death of a prostitute named Rosa from the Wildlife's Friends club, owned by Mr. Hoffman. This was the club that the two victims of the maniac often visited. Lorenzo decides to turn to a private detective agency for help with the investigation...

Sally Farnam and her husband move into a Victorian estate that has been uninhabited for several years. In the basement, the girl discovers a beautiful fireplace bricked up with brickwork, and the door for cleaning the ashes is securely sealed. The carpenter says he did this at the request of the previous owner of the house, Sally's grandmother, and assures the new owners that they should leave everything as it is. But the girl's curiosity gets the better of her, and she unscrews the door, thereby releasing terrifying demonic creatures.

Renowned author Mike Enslin, writer of horror novels, is writing another book about unusual phenomena and poltergeists in hotels. Not believing in the existence of the afterlife, Enslin decides to stay in the infamous Room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, which has been vacant for many years and is rumored to be haunted by ghosts. Despite the hotel manager's warning, the stubborn man insists on his decision, not even imagining what a nightmare the coming night will turn out to be.

Rumors spread throughout France that Chief Inspector Clouseau has died. The whole country mourns, except for Inspector Dreyfus... Finally, he is rid of his hated colleague! However, his joy is short-lived. It turns out that Clouseau's death is just a hoax, devised by Clouseau himself in order to catch a dangerous criminal.

In this contemporary update of Frank H. Spearman's Western hero, Whispering Smith is now a sleuth who arrives in London on holiday, but is soon called in to solve the case of a suicide which the father of the deceased woman thinks was murder.

Ten years after the death of her beloved husband, New York resident Anna decides to remarry. However, she finds herself in a strange situation when she becomes the object of passion of a 10-year-old boy who claims to be the reincarnation of her husband.

FBI agent Ray, who has Native American blood running through his veins, is sent to a reservation to investigate a murder in which a fighter for the rights of this small people is suspected. There he meets the local sheriff and the tribal chief. As Ray gets closer to his goal, he becomes less and less sure of the suspect's guilt. In the end, the agent realizes that the US government is trying to use him to eliminate an undesirable person. And at that moment, the Indian in him awakens, whose heart cannot tolerate injustice and lies.

The beautiful Maria is accused of murdering her lover. Lipstick on his shirt, fingerprints on the gun, and perfume on the pillow—all the evidence points to her guilt. Only the perceptive Inspector Clouseau is convinced that the girl is innocent. He releases her from custody and tries to keep an eye on her. To the inspector's disappointment, the murders continue, and each time the evidence points to Maria again.

An elderly man arrives in the town of Harpers Ferry, from where six weeks ago his daughter set off with friends on a hike along the Appalachian Trail and has been missing ever since. Despite warnings from locals, the group veered off the tourist route and soon encountered a community of people who had settled there before the Civil War. And who really dislike strangers.

Hector is quite content with his life: a loving wife, a house in the country. One day his attention is drawn to a half-naked girl glimpsed in the woods, and driven by curiosity, the man sets out to find out what is going on there. In the woods he is attacked by a man whose face is hidden by bloody bandages. Hiding from the stranger's pursuit, Hector accidentally gets into a time machine.