Unable to control his impulses, a man finds his obsession with women's hair devolving rapidly into cold-blooded murder.

In this strange tale, the frustrated wife of an invalid finds herself both attracted to and tormented by a live-in handyman with a criminal past, a former flame, and a wealthy, mysterious visitor.

A quasi-reformed stalker worries about the influence of his creepy behaviors on his son.

A man fantasizes about courting his friend's wife, despite being married himself, with increasing desire.

A lovestruck journalist and a torn painter pull the threads of their affair in opposite directions: he desires something more permanent, while she feels indebted to her husband and sons.

A young boy suffering from OCD-like symptoms grapples with self-hatred, bullying, and sexual abuse and frequently flaps his hands and constricts his throat to escape reality. His compulsions and coping mechanisms follow him through elementary school, middle school, high school, and college.

A man in pursuit of gold comes to learn how an obsession with wealth can tear away all your meaningful connections.

A man's jealous wife kidnaps any woman she thinks he shows any interest in to torture and murder in their basement. Deciding to finally put an end to this and escape the absusive relationship, the man poisons his wife and frees her most recent victim.

A young couple obsessed with syntax sets off to meet their favorite author.

A professor becomes obsessed with his daughter's dollhouse, and he crafts its furniture, keeps it neat and organized, and envisions himself inside it, even after his daughter grows up and leaves for college.