A young woman and her sister-in-law travel to Fiji to capture an infamous vampire dog, risking their lives in the process, for a well-paying doctor who claims to need them for his sick son. Only one of them returns home, and the doctor is revealed to have alternative plans for the dogs.

A woman's search for her twin brother and his lost cat embroils her in a London jewel heist.

In futuristic London, a con artist and a genetically engineered dog attempt to steal diamonds from the queen's heavily guarded labyrinth.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

A mysterious man treks into a quaint English village, where he stays the night with a couple and learns the town’s strange history surrounding mummification and entombment, as well as its local legend of a black dog that kills any person who sees it.

A gruesome find awakens a small-town police officer’s primal urges. When his former flame is threatened, he finds his true calling.

A woman and her brother are hiding from two violent dogs in the pantry in a house they broke in to, and she regrets bringing him into this because he has not fully recovered from his traumatic head injury.

A young girl living with her grandparents is spectator to the conflicts between the members of their restaurant family—including their vicious guard dog, to who she forms an attachment.

A family's beloved dog dies during a storm, and they bury him in their backyard — only to find the same dog scratching at their door three days later, back from the dead.

When a married couple finds an abandoned puppy in their front yard, their imperfect relationship and perceptions of self are disrupted.