A twelve-year-old boy has grown up his entire life being taught how to restrain his mother, who experiences monstrous transformations that leave her unrecognizable. When his father gets trapped in a room intended to restrain the mother, the boy has to quickly mature, lest he lose both his parents.

Every year, in a small town overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, fourteen children are invited to the Skullpocket Fair, a carnival run by ghouls. But only the strongest will survive and be indoctrinated into the ghouls’ theocratic cult.

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

A minister’s young daughter, whose mother suffers from depression, wears a controversial costume to an evangelical church gathering. While hiding from adults, she stumbles upon an exorcism.

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

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.

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 stint locked in the basement saves a young boy from unexpected danger. Living in his aunt's basement, a young boy imagines monsters coming to attack--until something much deadlier happens.

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

Frequent beatings from his father and the casual dismissal of his childhood fears lead to the deterioration of a boy's mental health, and the loss of the only 'real' person in the world leaves him in despair.