A man who walks his dog in the heath comes across another man and his strange dog who seem to suddenly be on his walk everyday. He tries to avoid the man until one day his own dog goes missing and he suspects the stranger is responsible.

A man moving to San Francisco finds himself dragged into conversation with his neighbor on the plane, a woman who is fleeing New Jersey after her affair with her sister's husband.

In a small town in present-day America where an ominous legend and a recent string of male disappearances have unnerved the public imagination, a hitchhiker and a barefoot traveler tread in the dark woods.

After her father kills himself, a young girl runs away with a traveling, unhoused stranger she meets at the bus stop. The two scrape and save for a life together until one day, she wakes up and he's gone. After looking for him in the cold, surviving an assault, and accepting help from a stranger, the girl realizes he's betrayed her, taking their savings and leaving. The next year, she gives birth to their child.

On a train in 20th century London, a middle-aged stranger tells a man about a series of strangely realistic dreams he had depicting a horrific world war that he could have prevented.

An airport shop cashier sees the shoes of a ghost in the deserted terminal during her shift. She is haunted by the decaying figure during each of her shifts and even after she decides to leave.

A man is caught in a traffic stop on his way to the nearby mountain where strange disappearances have occurred.

A group of explorers take a traveler to tour a cave where ghosts sing songs forgotten by the living. Upon entering, they realize they underestimated the effect the songs have on the psyche.

A man visiting a quaint town runs into a local family and their ritual surrounding the dead.

An anonymous, disturbed man travels aimlessly across the desert, murdering families within their own homes in a slew of small-town and highway killings.