A man keeps mastiffs half-starved in the dungeon so that he can press a button to release them in the event thieves enter his house. His nephew drugs him and wheels his wheelchair into their enclosure so that he will get his money when the dogs finish him. The man's ghost comes back and does the same thing to the nephew.; A landlady rents an apartment to straw men.; A body snatcher is thwarted in his efforts by cemetery rats that chew through coffins in order to pull the bodies into their warrens.; An executioner is frightened to death when someone places a mirror in the bottom of his head basket so that he sees his own head in there.; When a medium is exposed as a fake, she shoots her client, but it turns out that she had more ability than she thought she did.