The sorcerer Dallon travels through time back from the 21st century to the year 1954. He wants to kidnap the young woman Gloria, because women are sparse in the future. Gloria's boyfriend Hal objects and defeats Dallon in a fistfight.; Silk merchant Stanley Raffel starts a business partnership with the mysterious and beautiful Lycia who provides him with the finest silk to be found. Little does Raffel realize that Lycia is a gigantic spider processing her victims' bodies into silk threads. But he will find out.; London 1751: "Sniveling lawyer" John Drummond strikes a deal with Baalzaar, Satan's first lieutenant. Drummond enters into a career as the highest judge at Old Bailey, if he sends as many souls as possible to the gallows. Having become an evil man, he is Baalzaar's biggest prize in the end.; A man makes a pact with death, not the devil. The consequences are the same: wealth and power for a span of years. Then death claims him at the appointed time.; "A tale of supernatural wonder that comes down through the ages tells of two Egyptian lovers in the year 1543 B.C. ..." A princess loves a slave, which cannot be. The slave gets entombed but survives the ages in a state of supended animation. He finds his princess - as a mummy in the British Museum.; "Young Henry Ranse, because of his gambling and carousing, was in dire need of money..." So he locks up his rich uncle, tortures him out of his mind and gets custody over his money. Visiting his uncle in the insane asylum, Ranse gets strangled by his uncle's hands - though they never leave the strait-jacket.