An estranged prince in disguise as a commoner faces off against a magical being in order to take over and bring control to a kingdom that is embroiled in chaos following the death of his father.

During their discussion of philosophy and the downward spiral of the world’s condition, a group of men is startled by a voice in the dark that recounts for them two stories of the human embodiment of battlefield carnage. When the voice finishes, the men struggle to pinpoint where it came from.

A young couple in their 20s set off on a spontaneous trip to the American West that leads them to Joshua Tree, where the girl is possessed by the spirit of a tree, forcing the couple to renegotiate their impulsive relationship.

Two brothers living in a small American town plot to overthrow their father and stop him from using dark magic to repeatedly bring people back to life. Though they are eventually successful, one son's power surprises them when it is stronger than either of the boys anticipated.

A strange intergalactic force infiltrates the consciousness of a modern Earthling, prompting meditations on the role of the human, the loneliness of life, and the greater unknown.

A town has frequent visits from phantom apparitions, and the townspeople have many explanations for the ghosts, ranging from disbelief to hallucination to the idea that humans and phantoms were once a single race.

A man recalls his childhood near the woods and the creature which lurked within it.

When a woman meets a strange seed salesman one day, she endeavors to create a magnificent—and unexpectedly magical—herb garden.

At a going-away party for a friend on an isolated mountaintop, a man must avoid a mysterious man who is trying to kill all the guests.

A woman moves into a new housing development at the insistence of her married lover but finds herself bitter and unhappy with the life she is living. Things begin to fall apart after the death of her lover's son, leaving her alone to face the consequences of her immoral love affair and an ancient curse.