Julia Loftin, deeply depressed after the death of her 8-year-old daughter, leaves her husband and settles in an old house where, as it turns out, inexplicable things happen. She feels as if her daughter's ghost is constantly haunting her, as if warning her of impending danger.

To celebrate her graduation, Audra invites her friends to her newly purchased home in a seaside town. As the unsuspecting girls prepare for a fun-filled weekend, a silent killer in a creepy goat mask emerges from the woods enveloping the house and throws a bloody party. A dark past demands blood.

The 1890s, somewhere off the coast of New England. A young man, Ephraim Winslow, arrives on a remote island to work as the new assistant to the lighthouse keeper, a limping, bearded drinker named Thomas Wake. The latter treats his subordinate like a personal slave and forbids him to climb the lighthouse itself and operate the light. Ephraim cannot let go of his own past, so at first he refuses to drink, and soon all sorts of devilish things begin to happen on the rocky island.

Horror story writer Howard travels with his family to the Irish countryside to find new subjects for his stories, where he becomes interested in an old church with unusual stained glass windows depicting a defeated demon.

At the same time as the writer arrived, a foolish redneck chipped a large cobblestone beneath which the evil lurked, releasing the demon. Resurrected, the monster begins to subjugate human souls, killing and eating the unruly.

A woman cautiously creeps along the ceiling like a fly. More and more victims die at the hands of a killer who died years ago. Flames rise, snakes crawl, and the earth opens up to reveal the writhing bodies of the damned. Evil returns.

A female medium, during a seance, saw the town of Dunwich, where the gates of hell were about to open. She fell into lethargy from terror and was almost buried alive. Already from the grave she was dug up by a journalist or a private detective, and the two of them went in search of the terrible city to prevent disaster. Meanwhile, in Dunwich, the dead came to life, it rained corpse worms, seeing a ghost, a girl vomited out all her insides, and one boy had his head drilled out on a machine.

One day an ordinary family - husband, wife and two small sons - goes to visit their grandfather on Christmas Eve. It so happens that one of the children is left alone with the old man, who has never said a word before and now suddenly starts telling his grandson all sorts of scary things about Santa Claus.

One day, people started disappearing in Tokyo. First, a young man who had developed a unique computer program that made communication between people easier than ever disappeared. His friends searched for him for several days, until his girlfriend came to his house and found the guy's shadow on the wall, which had melted away like smoke and left traces of some unknown substance.

While crawfish fishing, teenager David Morgan meets his new neighbor, 16-year-old Megan, who, with her 10-year-old sister Susan, lives with the Chandler family. Mrs. Chandler, whom the children call Ruth, is not the best mother. She has three sons whom she lets drink beer and sometimes has lewd conversations with them.
Megan and Susan have a difficult life at Aunt Ruth's house. They have to endure beatings and humiliation from family members. Meg can't stand it and reports it to the sheriff, for which Ruth decides to teach her a lesson.