A doctor rigs up an elaborate hoax to convince his heart specialist friend that his theory of awareness immediately after death could be true by pretending to poison him but really only administering an anesthetic. When the heart specialist fails to come out from it, they realize he truly is dead, and since the story is told in first person, it confirms the doctor's theory of awareness beyond death since the end of the story reveals that the heart specialist died of a heart attack upon ingesting the supposed poisoned brandy and subsequently relates everything he perceives.; A high school teacher narrates his experiences as the main character in the dream of a sadistic student. When he realizes the child is waking up, he is terrified at the true end of his existence.; A doctor gets his revenge on the five members of the medical board who revoked his license to practice medicine by transferring their brains into the bodies of dogs, and using their reasoning abilities to make money as a novelty act. However, they get their revenge upon him by transferring his brain into the body of a horse and chasing him around the town streets.; When Clem retires as Fire Chief, that leaves old Dan Harper on the job.....until the Mayor appoints a younger man as Chief, and, from the beginning, Dan and Chief Miller never see eye-to-eye about anything. One night, a fire breaks out at Dan's home, and the new Chief purposely delays his response to that call, hoping that Dan will die in it.....which he does. Soon after, Chief Miller gets a ghostly call that his own house is on fire, and he rushes to the descent pole, which, somehow, has been replaced with a steel strip, sharpened to a keen razor-edge!