An ancient demon, encased in a shell of human flesh, roams the desert and commits ritual murders of those who have decided to part with their lives on their own. His next victim should be a woman who ran away from her husband. She easily becomes the demon's mistress, but she does not agree to become his sacrificial lamb.

A mysterious client invites Craig, an architect, to his home, and upon arrival Craig has a strange feeling that this place is familiar to him, even though he has never been here before. It soon becomes clear that this is actually a nightmare, and to awaken Craig will have to listen to five terrifying stories from the people who have gathered there.

During the construction of one of the London Underground lines at the end of the nineteenth century, a collapse occurred, and some of the workers, including women, were trapped under the rubble. After this incident, the construction company went bankrupt, and the unfinished line with bodies buried under the rubble was abandoned. However, some of the people survived, and their descendants have survived to this day in a rather feral state, eating... late subway visitors.

Jacob Singer returns to New York after being wounded in Vietnam. Tortured by memories of his son and the horrors of war, Jacob gradually loses his grip on reality. It turns out that his friend Louis is the only person James can count on. Things take a darker turn when he learns that his former coworkers are suffering from the same hallucinations.

When Rebecca left home, she thought her childhood fears were behind her. As a child, she was never sure what was real and what wasn't when the lights went out, and now her younger brother Martin is experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that once tested her sanity and threatened her safety. The frightening something mysteriously attached to their mother Sophie has reappeared. But this time Rebecca gets closer to unraveling the truth, and there is no longer any doubt that their lives are in danger as soon as the lights are turned out.

Sutter Cane's works have broken all records of popularity - Stephen King never dreamed of such a thing. The effect produced on some admirers of Kane's talent - complete disorientation and memory loss, mass outbreaks of violence, schizophrenics, overflowing clinics. The same author of horror novels, bringing huge profits to publishers, disappeared two months ago. To search for him, the publisher hires an insurance agent John Trent, and the search leads him to the city described in the book, but absent on the map ...

One night in a small town, 17 junior high school students ran away from home at the same time and disappeared without a trace. They were all in the same class, and only one boy did not disappear. For a month now, the police have been unable to find any clues, and the inconsolable parents believe that the new homeroom teacher is somehow involved.

Lincoln Rhyme is a renowned forensic scientist, author of many books, forever confined to a hospital bed. Amelia Donaghy is a rookie cop taking her first tentative steps on the bloody sidewalk. When a terrifying maniac shows up in town, she becomes Rhyme's eyes and ears on the terror-stricken streets. With her help, the forensic genius tries to unravel the secret cipher hidden in the unpredictable murders....

Journalist Grace Collier investigates the deaths of two children, in which Dr. Lakan was mysteriously involved many years ago. Soon she meets the doctor's assistant Angelica and her twin sister Annabel. But, entangled in this strange case full of mysterious deaths, Grace herself becomes part of the experiment...

A young woman, Sylvia Hachermann, lives alone in a fashionable apartment. However, she has a friend living one floor above, a lover - a pleasant young man, and a nice neighbor, Signor Rossetti, who shows Sylvia surprising kindness. At one of the parties, a negro guest tells about the effects of black magic, when a person gradually begins to go mad without realizing it. After that Sylvia begins to be haunted by nightmares from the past and present, when the line between the real and the imaginary is blurred. She notices strange, suspicious changes in her immediate surroundings, until everything becomes sinister....