An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the work of the Syngenor - the synthesized genetic organism!
三个恐怖短篇小说，包括：一个女人试图抢劫坟墓时遇到的故事；一个女人把她的儿子从死里召回的故事（完全照搬死亡之夜 Dead of Night (1977)中的第三个故事）；以及一个非洲娃娃复活的故事。
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
泗水的一个孩子想埋葬父亲的尸体。然而，在“塔利尔”（tahlil）仪式后的那个晚上，他父亲的尸体却复活了，走出了房子，消失在黑暗中。同一天晚上，拉蒙岸村的一位居民在村路尽头看到了一具行尸走肉的幽灵。这个村庄被诅咒了：出生在村里的人，如果死在村外，没有立即被送回家，就会自己回家。
