Cynthia Beckert

A young boy is shanghaied by American mass media into becoming a James Bond-esque character in a 30,000-strong film series with a cornucopia of product tie-ins.

The Evans' family vacation becomes a nightmare when a gang of cut-throats raid their trailer and camp site.

Wilbur works in an old carnival and shows some gruesome things to the public. He covers his face because he had a sadistic father who burned his face as a child. Everybody makes jokes about his scars and when the new boss fires him, he goes to an old swamp-witch who gives him a peace of wood from a hanging tree. Wilbur makes a mask from this piece of wood and puts all his anger in this mask. When he puts the mask on, everybody who looks at him commits suicide.

A widowed woman is being stalked by her husband's murderers.

After a man commits a crime to have a better lifestyle imprisoned, Officer Rogers, must decide whether to help him by sending him to jail or set him free, condemning him to a life of despair.