Vladimir, the teenage son of a local rich man, falls madly in love with his new neighbor's daughter Zina competing for her affections along with a host of her other suitors.

A stranger comes to town with a bag full of gold and a test for everyone.

A man is about to be executed by the Inquisition. Is hope enough to save him?

A young Corsican boy goes against local customs and dishonors his family when he gives up a bandit to police. Based on the tale by Prosper Mérimée.

From Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 'The Vampire.'

From Ivan Turgenev's 'A Swashbuckler.'

From Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 'The Actress.'

From Edgar Allan Poe's 'The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether.'

From Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Rajah's Diamond.'

From Nikolai Gogol's 'The Nose.'

From Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'

A mysterious stranger might be the Devil; an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous short story 'Markheim.'

From Boleslaw Prus' 'The Barrel Organ.'

New tenants at a castle terrify the resident ghost; from Oscar Wilde's short story, 'The Canterville Ghost.'

From Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron No. 40.'

From Ambrose Bierce's 'A Matter of Conscience.'

From Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed.'

From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'

From Ivan Turgenev's 'The Song of Triumphant Love.'

From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'

A young man with a lot of money finds that the bed in his room at a boarding-house is not what it seems; from William Wilkie Collins' 'A Terribly Strange Bed.'

From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'

From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'

From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'