In a small town in present-day America where an ominous legend and a recent string of male disappearances have unnerved the public imagination, a hitchhiker and a barefoot traveler tread in the dark woods.

The impact of an absent father emerges in the gruesome stories of a young daughter as her alcoholic mother listens and reflects on the struggles of raising her alone.

As an elderly woman grows increasingly distant from her husband, she finds solace in nighttime walks through the woods with a wolf born from her imagination—that becomes quite real.

Watching his friends die in a mysterious attack, a man makes a decision that may haunt him forever.

An eighteen-year-old boy who has recently run away from home is picked up by a friendly couple, but the man who rescued him soon has a big request.

A home invasion brings out the worst in a young boy.

While fleeing for his life, a Native American man makes an unexpected pit stop to nurse a sick woman and baby back to health.

A mother provides his son with a brief history of the wolves who turned into men and back into wolves—and their unfathomable terror.

A 39-year-old war veteran returns to live with his mother after his wife kicks him out for domestic abuse. Suffering from what his mother believes is PTSD, the man becomes increasingly anxious and bitter. When the cops come looking for him for one of an assorted range of former crimes, a string of events ends with him shooting at the house of his grocery-store crush and running into the woods.

Two young boys are alone at their father's farm for the week, when one of them discovers what he believes to be a dead body in the forest near their land.