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A concert pianist, so obsessed by the death of an arch-rival that he desecrates his grave, announces he will play a sonata written especially for the dead man's oversized hands.

Undertaker Carl Somers murders his nagging wife so he can head west to marry a wealthy spinster. The joke's on him though: eloping with the old maid gets her disinherited, leaving him with another unwanted wife. A new doctor in town hiding from a murder charge comes in handy at this point.

A bookworm uses his good imagination and some storylines from Poe to dispose of his cheating wife's paramours.

Ostensible milquetoast Maynard Thispin plans on killing his cold, overbearing and stingy wife, unaware a pair of nosy sisters across the street have just killed a man themselves. Maynard has a cozy love-nest planned for himself and a young paramour named Babs but his overbearing and penurious wife of 27 years is a hindrance to his plans. So the would-be Lothario hastens his plan of removing Mrs. Thispin from his life.

An aging actress tries for a comeback in a film about a witch hanged for murder. As a stunt she insists on wearing the historical woman's wig, which turns out to be cursed, changing her into a literal man-killer.

Family that kills together seeks to stay together in style, by icing the heir of one of their victims, before she comes into her inheritance. If the heiress audits the books, she'll discover that the family has already blown her share of the estate. Her newlywed sister was backed off a cliff while having her photo snapped, so the younger sister is understandably leery of heights, but not of her very understanding new in-laws.

An 11-year-old boy neglected by his father gets so caught up in his fantasy world that he takes a real rifle to hunt down his made-up enemy, the evil Black Bart.

A beach bum locks onto a wealthy young woman whose sadness is as obvious as her flashy jewels and sports car. At first Ralphie Teal only desires a quick score, but when the comely Ms. Landers forgives his larceny in exchange for his serious attention, the heel sees a much bigger payoff looming, via her only relative, a harsh uncle who's loaded.

A killer's descendant plots to quickly inherit what he thinks works rightfully be his, when his ill, rich uncle Pontifex, takes up with Queenie De Lyte, a stripper turned art fancier. Tundifer looks exactly like his evil ancestor, a portrait of whom hangs in the family home, whose expensive renovation may include a portal to a prior century.

A second-rate nightclub magician inherits a genuine book of sorcery from his occultist uncle. He uses it to summon a demon to create impossible magic feats for his act but there is a price to pay.

Two tales of terror centering on communicating with the dead. In the first, an elderly morgue attendant can speak to the cadavers in his charge and he learns the identity of the gunman who killed a noted racketeer. In the second story, a greedy nephew returns to his family home in the Lousiana bayou to claim his inheritance but why does his dotty old aunt insist that he is dead?

A faithless wife and her lover murder her husband and sell his skeleton to a medical school. The skeleton keeps returning, however--and screaming.

A newlywed bride must hide a secret about her husband's whereabouts. She is blackmailed by an eavesdropping maid and pressured by others to tell her secret.

In 1661 Elspeth Clewer is burned as a witch, cursing her family with her dying breath. Three hundred years to the day afterward, Lady Margaret Clewer returns to her ancestral home to claim her inheritance and finds the ghost of Elspeth trying to seize her body so she can walk the Earth once more.

France, 1875. A condemned man learns of a legal loophole allowing him to be pardoned if the executioner dies before his execution. He then enlists his wife in a scheme to make sure that this improbable scenario comes to pass.

On the Welsh Border, an old man suspected of witchcraft is gruesomely murdered with a hay-fork and bill-hook. The Scotland Yard inspector investigating has to wade through a morass of superstition to uncover the killer, but when his wife starts having visions of the Black Dog, harbinger of death, the locals focus their suspicions on her.

Family man Guy Guthrie murders his mistress when she threatens to expose him, and then his wife when she figures out what he's done. But what will he do about his beloved teenage son when the boy begins to figure out his father had killed his mother?

A man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.

After a young woman and her penniless lover defy her her grandmother's wishes, the old lady uses witchcraft to make their lives unpleasant

A brother helps his brother cover up the murder of his philandering wife by framing her lover.

After the murder of a London doctor, emotionally disturbed Sylvia Lawrence secretly sends a letter to her ex-lover Donald revealing that her husband Andrew is holding her a virtual prisoner at their remote vacation home; Andrew claims to be protecting her but what is he really hiding? And why is he being blackmailed by the late doctor's nurse?

An American comes to Tangier to search for his missing brother and becomes embroiled in the search for a missing cache of heroin.

A man overhears a plot for kidnapping and murder. At first, he doesn't want to do anything about it, but eventually he gets caught in the middle of the plot.

A public relations man writes a book exposing an ex-client, a secretive international financier, is murdered when it's finished. A reporter investigates, but everyone he tries to interview, dies under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, the financier gets a comic fired because he's obsessed with ensnaring the funny-man's girlfriend, a leggy nightclub singer.

A family of possible cannibals or vampires or just plain murdering thieves menace a married couple, the Denhams, but Mr. Denham (Tom Poston) laughs off the scary Southern hotel as a joke. The Denhams got lost on their second honeymoon and sought shelter in a spooky hotel, but got locked in. Beautiful Rosamond Denham (Elizabeth Montgomery) is appalled to find the Carta family home has a private jail cell, containing haggard female relative Ruthie Carta, who pleads for Charlie and Rosamond to release her.