Failed horror writer Dale (David Brisbin) buys the home of Fulton Pierce, a deceased horror movie actor, and moves in with his shrewish wife Debbie (Lara Harris). Dale discovers Pierce's makeup kit, and to gain inspiration, begins putting on some of the makeup to act out his favorite horror roles. Dale gets a lot more than he bargained for the more time he keeps the makeup on.

Artist Linda McGuire (Laraine Newman) lives alone in an old house in the country, where she's harassed by local peeping tom Ritzen (Terrence Evans). She's visited by author John Thunston (Alex Cord), who is conducting research on a warlock who used to live in the home. As it turns out, the house and Thunston are both more than they seem, especially since the warlock's demonic familiar is still imprisoned in the basement.

Four teens - Paul (Byron Thames), Paul's girlfriend Jodie (Ashley Laurence), Beverly (Tori Spelling), and Beverly's boyfriend, Matthew (Sasha Jenson) - break into an allegedly haunted house one night to play a peculiar game. The teens proceed to tell each other a ghost story; each person can make up part of the story, but only so long as a match burns. The story they come up with centers on Herbert Waverly, the former owner of the house, who was hacked up by his lover's jealous husband and thrown into the swamp, and returns from the dead at midnight to kill anyone who he finds trespassing in his home. Throughout their time in the house, the teens notice that their story actually comes true: when Paul mentions thunder, thunder rumbles; when he mentions the clock striking midnight, the clock in the house chimes. Things become deadly when the group accidentally conjure up the actual Herbert Waverly (Tom Woodruff Jr.), forcing the kids to finish the story before he kills them all.

White witch Fiona Flynn (Adrienne Barbeau) is consulted by Steven Rose (James Morrison), a professor of ancient history who has unwittingly summoned Dramon, a doppelgänger, from an ancient text. As the doppelgänger is trying to take over Rose's life, Flynn assists him by summoning another demon named Belphamelech (Eddie Velez) to deal with Dramon. With Fiona's son Ian (Brandon Bluhm) in the apartment while the conjuring goes on, Rose unlearned in the magical arts, and the wisecracking Belphamelech briefly turning traitor, the summoning of Dramon start to go wrong.

Dr. Collin (William Prince) is a former surgeon who suffered a mental breakdown and has been perpetually incarcerated in an insane asylum. He has been suffering hallucinations in which his body comes apart, and in response, began obsessively creating anatomically correct clay manikins. The kindly Dr. Jarrett (Glynis Barber) is aware of the many lives Collin has saved and wishes for his release, but the sadistic Dr. Starr (Brian Brophy) demands that the manikins be taken away for Collin's own good. The manikins come to life and begin wreaking a horrible vengeance, with Dr. Jarrett learning a terrible secret about them in return.

Vito (Rob Morrow) is a young Italian American man who enters the dress shop of a young woman named Lia (Linda Blair), attempting to kill her. After she disarms and subdues him, Vito accuses Lia of being "la strega" (the Italian language word for witch). Ten years ago, Vito was very ill and his mother (Maria Tucci) sold her engagement ring in Lia's shop, which was once a pawn shop, to pay for a doctor. Lia had allegedly switched the rings, then cursed Vito's mother so that she became ill for a decade before finally dying. This prompted Vito to seek revenge, as well as fulfill his mother's dying wish to get the ring back. Lia says it was rather her mother who owned the pawn shop, that her mother was the witch, and that she herself is innocent. To prove it, she makes Vito promise to stay with her for two weeks, after which he may or may not kill her. Vito tries to kill Lia right away, but she morphs into a demon, his mother, and a dressmaker's dummy. Realizing he's trapped, Vito stays with Lia, but while he still suspects that she is a witch, Vito becomes attracted to her. He dreams of making love to her, but she again morphs into his mother - who accuses him of breaking her dying wish. Lia tells Vito that his mother tried to defraud Lia's mother by taking a ring that she hadn't pawned. Lia's mother had a vision of Vito's mother in horrible pain for 10 years, but it wasn't the work of a curse. Lia and Vito make love for real. When the two weeks are over, Vito meets Lia in the shop and shoots her. Her body morphs into that of a demon, then Vito's mother - who accuses him of not retrieving the ring, and revealing that Lia was actually right about her claims. After the mother dies, Lia reappears, and Vito returns the ring to her, telling her that he kept his promise.

In a morbid twist on a classic joke, Ma (Bobo Lewis) and Pa (George Hall) allow Howard Filby (Soupy Sales), an aging Bible salesman, into their home when he crashes his car during a terrible thunderstorm. Filby is permitted to spend the night, but must share a room on the second floor with the parents' daughter Lucy (Stephanie Phillips). Lucy has a beautiful voice, but Filby can only see her in silhouette through the bedsheet dividing their room. When he convinces Lucy to lower the sheet, she turns out to be just as beautiful as he expected. Little is Filby aware however, not only does Lucy demand commitment from her lovers, but she also harbors a horrific secret.

Mr. Hallet (Fritz Weaver) is the owner of a general store and hotel near a swamp. He is visited by Jack Bateman (Richard Edson), a private investigator who is looking for a missing woman, that was last seen at the hotel. Jack then meets beautiful Ann Spiros (Gina Gershon) and her loutish but wealthy husband George (Ed Kovens), and is immediately attracted to her. Hallet is actually selling small monsters he stores in large Mason jars. When released in the light, the creatures attack, kill, and in seconds devour a victim before dissolving. Ann uses one of the creatures to kill her husband, allowing her and Bateman to have a night of intense passion. But can these two unethical people trust one another? The episode features a film noir look and feel.

A greedy extraterrestrial sorcerer named Arturus (Richard Moll) attempts to summon a demon that he will command to bring him gold (or "drast" as he calls it). By using a wrong ingredient during the summoning ritual, Arturus accidentally summons his dimensional counterpart, a work-obsessed insurance salesman named Arthur Gammet (Jeff Silverman). Despite his initial confusion, Arturus demands the just-as-confused Arthur to bring him his gold. To avoid a lifetime in a cage for failing Arturus, Arthur convinces the sorcerer to send him back to Earth to get the gold. Once he returns, Arthur decides to summon his own demon in an attempt to free himself from Arturus' control. By repeating the same mistake Arturus made, Arthur manages to summon another dimensional counterpart, a meticulous and neurotic demon named Arturo (Eddie Deezen). When Arthur and Arturo discover that they both share an enthusiastic obsession with insurance, the duo agree to work together to stop Arturus and free themselves.

Mr. Ross (George D. Wallace), a cantankerous old man in a retirement home, tires of life and hopes for death to take him soon. He grows attracted to kindly nurse Sheila Brewer (Barbara Billingsley) after she helps him get a room. That night, the Grim Reaper (Curt Lowens) appears in Ross' room and attempts to take his soul. Terrified, Ross strikes a deal with the Reaper to deliver more souls to him in exchange for an extended life. After the Reaper reappears several times in a human disguise (known as Dr. Morton) warning Ross to hold up his end of the bargain, Ross begins killing the residents of the home to pay off his debt, all the while trying to hide said debt from Sheila. Unknown to Ross, he wasn't the only resident of the home to have made a deal with the Reaper.

Dr. Miner (Leif Garrett), an elderly archeologist dying from a brain tumor, begs his tomboy archeologist daughter "Jake" (Valerie Wildman) to take him to the location of an ancient Native American spring presided over by a statue of a snake god; the spring being rumored to actually be the Fountain of Youth. Jake does so, but she and her father are confronted by the guardian of the spring, a Native American shaman known as Saspondo (Nick Ramus). Saspondo tells the old man that a terrible price must be paid in order for the spring's waters to grant youth and immortality. Miner proceeds to kill his daughter and mixes her blood into the water, thinking his sacrifice will pay the price. He discovers however, that there is another payment yet to come.

Danny (Patrick Breen) is a sleazy, womanizing museum curator who is cheating on his fiancé Edwina (Sarah Trigger) with a café waitress named Cheryl (Louise Roberts). Edwina discovers Danny's infidelity when she stumbles upon him attempting to have sex with Cheryl in the museum's basement as it is under construction. All three people are unintentionally locked in for the night by the museum staff. To make matters worse, Danny accidentally awakens the mummified corpse of a 3,000-year-old Druid priestess (Pamela Dean Kelly) when he exposes it to a bloody handkerchief. Through Edwina, the mummy claims that she is the spirit of woman herself. She was previously rejected by her lover in the past, and enlists the women's help to regain her youth and seek vengeance on all male lotharios, starting with Danny.

Young Roy Barton (Robert Oliveri) is bossed around by his abusive mother (Kate McGregor-Stewart) and his loathsome teenage sister Barbie (Danielle Ferland). He finds a prize in a cereal box that "grows" into a wisecracking amphibious creature that calls itself Swlabr (voiced by Rockets Redglare) when it is submerged in water. Swlabr makes a friend in Roy, telling him that he gets bigger the more liquid (which he calls "lick 'em up") he consumes, and playing tricks Roy's mom and sister in an attempt to protect Roy from them. Thinking that Roy has a pet of some kind, Mrs. Barton decides to turn the hose on whatever the creature might be. She knows little about Swablr's liquid diet or his unending appetite.

Dr. Rathmore (Barry Nelson) is the maniacal supervisor of an obscure but essential unit of the subway system of a major city, which he operates from an underground office. His men - Jensen (Rick Goldman), Luchinsky (Calvin Levels), and Watson (Jan Munroe) - while repairing the audio and video cameras in the subway tunnels, come under siege by a race of mysterious, subterranean, yeti-like creatures that feed on human flesh. Accountant Alex Kritz (John Scott Clough) interrogates Rathmore, demanding to know why his men are paid so highly, why his unit of the subway system is paid out of the police department's budget, and why its budget is many times larger than any other city agency. When Kritz ultimately learns about the creatures, and that the insane Rathmore wants to keep them under his absolute control as a means of making the subway (and by extension himself) ludicrously wealthy, Kritz has to choose to either report Rathmore's findings to the authorities, or let him continue controlling the creatures so that they don't reach the surface. Regardless of which option Kritz chooses, Rathmore isn't prepared to let him go so easily.

After enduring car trouble, Ellen (Karen Sillas) stays with her sister May (Juliette Kirth) in the broken-down, bug-infested cabin that their late father once lived in. Ellen also discovers that May has a handsome but mysterious new lover named Peter (Robert Kerbeck), who has moved into the cabin with her. May is also pregnant, and due to give birth soon. Peter seduces Ellen, who has always been competitive with May (but has long denied it), ultimately impregnating her as well. Ellen discovers that Peter is an insectoid creature who has impregnated her sister with his spawn, which are slowly eating her from the inside out and will kill her upon birth.

During the Vietnam War, US Marines Sergeant Kenner (Ahmad Rashad) and Corporal Torres (Antone Pagán), aided by a South Vietnamese lieutenant (Glenn Kubota), blast their way into an underground bunker operated by the Viet Cong. Inside the bunker, the trio discover a mortally wounded guerrilla who tells them with his last words that the bunker is infested with ravenous zombies. The corpses reanimated after the VC tunneled through an ancient burial ground while constructing the bunker, and they emerged from the tunnel walls to massacre the VC, acting upon the desires of the earth itself to exact vengeance for all the pointless blood spilled during the war. The trio become unnerved and panicked as the zombies make themselves known by devouring the lieutenant, but while the nervous Torres wants to escape the bunker, the hardened Kenner decides that these zombies might be worth shooting at.

In a soap-opera parody, Victoria (Karen Valentine) and Edward (George Reinholt) are a married couple of morally bankrupt surgeons who are practicing a new form of experimental surgery. Edward has recently discovered a way to replace a person's brain and head with a network of computer chips, having previously done so with a parrot. Billy "Hunk" Hunkle (John Schiappa), Victoria's musclebound, dim-witted, soldier of fortune lover, returns after seven years in the jungle. Edward proceeds to fool Hunk into committing suicide, after which the duo remove Hunk's head and replace it with one of Edward's computer networks, programming the headless body to act as a servant for them. Hunk's personality somehow resurfaces and overrides the computer, sending his headless body on a rampage.

On a stormy night in New England, Howard (Richard Clarke) and Fredrick (Matt Hulswit), a respective doctor and veteran, are waiting out the storm by playing chess. Suddenly, local citizen Henry Wells (Richard Hughes) appears at the door, suffering from agonizing pain. Upon being let in and examined by Howard, Wells is revealed to be missing his brain and has a hole in his temple. Miraculously still able to walk and talk, Wells tells Fredrick and Howard that he was attacked and had his brain eaten by an alien from outer space, having witnessed a spacecraft wreathed in light landing in a nearby town. After Wells finally dies, the alien begins speaking to the two men through Wells' body, announcing that it is coming for them next. This leaves the two men scrambling to protect themselves and ensuring that the creature doesn't eat their brains next.

Howard "Howie" Mitla (Tom Noonan) is an accountant and television addict who has a particular fondness for quiz shows, always getting the correct answers before the contestants. Howie's wife Violet (Alice Playten) goes out for ice cream while her husband watches his shows. After hearing a noise, Howie witnesses an incredibly long, bony finger poking out of the drain of his bathroom sink, which leaves him unnerved. Howie's wife returns from the store and Howie tells her what he saw, but when she looks in the sink, she sees nothing. That night, Howie finds he can't even go to the bathroom without the finger emerging from the drain. Growing more and more terrified, Howie tries to destroy the finger with drain cleaner, then cuts it up with a hedge trimmer. Every time he tries to attack the finger, it attacks him in return, growing longer and longer with the more damage it sustains. A policewoman investigates the bloody bathroom after being called by Howie's neighbor. As he is arrested, the now-insane Howie tells her that he forgot something very important: every finger is attached to a hand.

Richard B. Shull has a voiceover role as a television announcer.