A man in the Louisiana swamp diverts traffic from the road to his mansion in order to satisfy the cravings of his demented homicidal brother for victims to dismember. One night, after the latest victim, a doctor, has been dispatched, three corpses composed of mismatched pieces rise from the quicksand pool and dismember the man and reattach his body parts in incorrect order.; A brain surgeon transfers the brain of his victim into the body of a gorilla taken from a carnival. At first, he thinks of writing a message for his wife and children about what has happened to him, but after eluding the police in the dark, he realizes that, with the surgeon dead of a heart attack, the world no longer has a place for him other than the carnival cage.; A man has a barbecue in his garden-obsessed wife's back yard where the guests ruin the flowers. She snaps and advances on her husband with the carving knife to serve him upon the barbecue.; In this grim fairy tale a cranky old queen constantly badgers the castle's seamstress, decorator and artist into painting a portrait of her to hang on a bare wall spot. The artist finally gets fed up with her and severs her head with an ax, the seamstress sews it to the canvas, and the decorator has it framed to fit upon the wall.