A man who was a jealous husband in his past life now inhabits the body of a parrot. His wife buys him from a pet store, and he is forced to watch her from his cage as she brings other men home, again and again.

A female caretaker visits a man confined to his house every week to bring him food and tell him stories, but when one of her tales is interrupted, he begins to worry about the future of their arrangement.

A little girl tells the story of how her ceramic figurines come from glazing little people that live in the walls of all houses.

A roomer lives in a house of an old couple in Long Island. He lives a meager life and witnesses strange things in his small town full of gossip and secrets.

After their stay in a rundown boardinghouse, a boy and his mother hunt for an apartment and the boy dreams of a house with a warm fireplace of his own.

A mother takes her son and his friend to a prison to see the electric chair to teach the boys about right and wrong at an early age.

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.

A young orphaned girl becomes frightened when she hears rustling outside her window, which she believes comes from a prisoner who escaped from the nearby prison.

A young girl goes through a door in her house and discovers a parallel universe — only in this world, her seemingly loving family have cruel intentions.

Through a confronting use of second-person, four haunted houses are hypothesized, each worse than the last, and ending with the most terrifying picture of all: dark reality in suburbia.