"Loathsome young parasite" Lex Markow steals Diogenes' lamp from an antique dealer, but the relic turns out to be cursed. When he tries to get rid of the lamp Markow hangs himself - like it was predicted.; A young woman's fiancé returns, horribly scarred, months after he disappeared in a presumably fatal plane crash. He leads the woman into a death swamp, where she has to destroy an evil swamp queen to lay his tortured soul to rest.; A bypasser rescues a witch imprisoned by an evil sorcerer and marries her, but things turn out badly. Because the monster of the moat wants its revenge!; A mysterious potion brought back from Africa turns men into glass ("silicon men"). When exploring the glass city, a party of reporters are captured. They turn on a siren. The silicon men break and shatter from the noise.; "Richard Lowell had heard the legend of the old witch that haunted the abandoned mansion on the hill..." On halloween night, Lowell takes a photo of the witch. No one believes him.; "The strange incident which is narrated below occurred in 1927, in the natural history museum of a large mid-western city..." The curator gets killed by a "tribal death mask" falling from the wall. The mask had complained about being relocated from its home country earlier on.