Tom Lanson, a traveling salesman with a troubled past, is driving overnight through a desolate stretch of countryside when a detour sign forces him off the main highway. What begins as a simple reroute quickly becomes a nightmarish journey through isolation, guilt, and death.

Harry Gordon, a struggling vaudeville comic, is famous for one thing: his laugh — loud, high-pitched, and uncontrollable. It's his signature… and his curse. Once wildly popular, Harry’s career is now fading, and he’s become bitter, paranoid, and dangerously desperate for a comeback.

When a rival comic drops dead during a live performance — literally laughing himself to death — Harry becomes both a suspect… and a star.

Dr. Stephen Conway, a respected physician in a small New England town, receives an anonymous letter with just five chilling words:

He dismisses it as a prank… until the next morning, when a patient dies unexpectedly. And then another. The handwriting in their medical files matches the envelope.

Irene Taylor, an elegant, calculating woman with a sharp tongue and a sharper mind, has spent years in a loveless marriage to wealthy businessman George Taylor. Tired of his controlling behavior and determined to inherit his fortune, Irene puts into motion a perfect plan for murder — cool, clinical, and foolproof.

Or so she thinks.

Steve Archer, a smooth-talking private investigator with a taste for trouble, gets a late-night visit from a beautiful blonde named Paula Marsh, who claims her twin sister has disappeared — and that someone’s trying to kill her next.

But as Steve gets pulled into the case, he quickly learns that in Paula’s world, the truth wears many faces — and death always has a partner.

Edna Rawlins, a wealthy widow and former opera singer, lives in an old mansion filled with relics of her glamorous past. Her prized possession: a luxurious collection of human hair wigs, styled from rare and exotic origins — including one supposedly taken from a dead woman.

Gil Harper, a former soldier turned night watchman, works the graveyard shift in a decaying industrial district on the edge of town. Ever since the war, Gil has suffered from insomnia, vivid dreams, and periods of blacked-out memory. He walks in the night… but sometimes doesn’t remember where.

David Brent, a World War I veteran and reclusive scholar, returns to his ancestral estate in New England with a dark secret. For over twenty years, David has wandered the world, never aging, never falling ill, never dying — cursed with immortality after a mysterious battlefield incident involving an ancient artifact he uncovered in a ruined French chapel.

Lucia Marlin, a young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown, is sent by her doctor to rest in a quiet coastal town. She rents a lonely old house perched above a stretch of coastline known ominously as Skeleton Bay — named for the bleached driftwood that washes ashore like bones.

But the locals tell darker stories — of wreckers who once lured ships to their doom on the rocks… and of a phantom schooner that sails in on fog-heavy nights, crewed by the dead.

David Brent, a young scholar and genealogist, travels to a remote New England village to trace the lineage of a wealthy and reclusive family — the Cains, long rumoured to carry a dark, murderous curse passed down from generation to generation.