A child chained in a cellar abused by their enraged parents decides to take matters into their own hands.

A group of children in a family lives with their grandmother, but she is mean and abusive. The children soon become tired of her abuse and plot to kill her in various ways, though the task is complicated by logistics.

A bunch of small-town kids run into a scarecrow—or what they think, at first, is a scarecrow.

A woman on a plane tells a story of how her younger brother started speaking to a sinister, unknown creature at night after their father's death.

One day, a middle-aged couple takes in a child orphaned by a horrible crime.

After getting hired by a family in the New England suburbs, a young nanny tells the children scary folktales. When the boy begins to have night terrors and the boy's father falls gravely ill, she suspects that it is more than mere ghost stories that haunt the family.

A group of teens break into an abandoned haunted mansion on Halloween, and when the prank goes awry one member sacrifices herself to save the others.

Raising a troubled eight-year-old boy, two parents seek psychiatric assistance to help him cope with his anger issues. When his mother stumbles across a hand-crafted coffin the boy made for his father, she realizes the assistance they will need far exceeds that of a psychiatrist.

A young boy comes of age in front of a television screen playing monster movies in 1970s America.

When a group of adults get stranded in the middle of nowhere, they seek shelter from the rain in a secluded cabin, only to be cast into a horror show created by a child's imagination.