Gladys Swartz was a plain girl boiling with suppressed desire. In a book on the occult, she read of a bodily possession and conceived a devilish plan. She brought about her own death by accident, then, wandering the earth as a restless spirit, she attacked and conquered the body of the lovely Peri Lee. After a desperate battle, she drove the young girl's soul down into the depths of her psyche. Then she led the life of a lovely wanton, but, more and more she came to realize that she had co...

When the crew bulldozed a sycamore tree right before dark, they saw several bodies lying under the tree roots. The boss left to fetch the police. Carl was the only witness as the bodies transformed to beautiful people that crawled out of the hole and simply walked away. Ridiculed for his story, Carl resolved to investigate. Several strange occurrences began that night. The most important development seemed to be the newly-built church Aeternita. Several neighbors were invited to attend nig...

The youths began appearing across town one evening. They seemed to exactly match descriptions of missing children, some gone for 30 years, several more recently. When a dog was killed, the threat could not be ignored. After the tent revival, Reverend Walsh was called to sit and pray with Matt Reed, a trapper who had been accidentally caught in one of his own steel traps. Matt had freed himself and staggered home before collapsing. Now he seemed possessed, with sounds of children's voices c...

Andrea is confused and frustrated. Her mother—on her deathbed—told Andrea that she was not her real mother, and made her promise to seek out her real parents. Upon arriving at their home, she received mixed signals from her "real parents". She had to uncover the secrets that seemed to surround her, and began to wonder if one of the secrets was a past murder. Who could she trust as she struggled to get to the bottom of this mystery?

Dirk was feeling lost and lonely. His wife Patricia had announced that she was struggling to feel any purpose in her life and had decided to move into an apartment for a time period to sort things out. Dirk is strongly motivated to change something to put his family back together, and decides to sell his share of the business and invest in a summer resort based around a beautiful, remote, spring-fed lake in Arkansas. Unfortunately, he didn't ask enough questions about the history of the la...

Following her husband's long illness ending in death, Elsea and her three children were left with no home and very little money. Her parents offered them a place to live. An old house outside of town that had been owned by their family for more than three generations. They happily moved in and began to enjoy their newfound security. Elsea quickly made friends with bearded, handsome neighbor Corey, but she felt that it was too soon for a relationship. Corey began encouraging Elsea to take u...

Barry had been abused while at a nursery school. His father Ramon, a single parent, had to deal with the aftermath. Job demands left him little time to care for Barry and his older brother and sister. Fortunately, the therapist Dr. Coleman had an idea. Shannon, another of his patients, had recently lost her husband and young son in a car accident. Shannon was still struggling to recover while attending college. With summer vacation coming up, Dr. Coleman suggested that Ramon hire Shannon t...

After her parents passed away, Tara sought to escape the inevitable marriage to the wealthy Albert if she stayed in town. After traveling to San Francisco with almost no money, during a heavy rain she found shelter with a small group of people that seemed to be penniless and without resources. She learned that young Amy, one of this "family", was pregnant and needing help. After the men returned from an evening outing, they expressed an urgent desire to leave. Mysteriously, they had a car ...

Felicia was not quite fourteen years old the night that she disobeyed her mother and took a path home through the woods after nightfall. She was attacked. When she came to, she vaguely recalled the incident, and could not identify what or who had attacked her. Celta, a servant who had been with the family for decades, helped her recover and keep the attack secret. However, four months later her pregnancy could not be disguised. Felicia's mother felt strongly that they should keep that baby...

Eddie Wickham had been brought away from his family by his great-aunt Theodora with the promise that she would help him get schooling to overcome his handicap—he could not speak and had not learned to read and write. But Theodora seemed to keep him busy working, chopping wood, feeding the animals, milking the cow. All for no pay and a straw mattress in the top floor of her huge old house. Life would have been very lonely, except for the company of five year-old Katrina that followed him ev...

"Ten-agers" Greta and her cousin Derek are constant companions. Upon finding an old well, of course they must pry off the rotten wood cover. Derek fetches his Dad's fishing rod. He soon hooks a beautiful gold ring with a red stone setting, followed by an ornate piece of cloth. It becomes apparent that there is a body in the bottom of the well … the police must be called in.Greta immediately takes possession of the ring. She must possess that ring! Without knowing why, she turns the...

Ellen returns home from college hoping to spark some interest from Rodney, the man that she has loved since her teenage years. She seeks peace and comfort in her childhood home and the surrounding ranch. However, a recurring nightmare from her childhood returns after a three-year break. Moving from her old room in the third story to the second story seems to help settle things down. A short time later, her Uncle returns from a long absence and introduces his new bride Tina. Surprisingly, E...