Mrs. Amworth (Glynis Johns) is a vivacious, sociable middle-aged woman in a small English town which is currently experiencing a mysterious anemia epidemic.
Amworth presides over neighborly garden parties and card games, but Francis Urcombe (John Phillips), a local student of the occult, suspects she may have something to do with the mysterious ailment which has begun afflicting a friend's nephew and others in the village.
She reappears to inflict further harm, however, leading Urcombe to the local cemetery, where he waits for her spirit to return to her grave and then exhumes her body and impales it with a pickaxe, killing her.
(Directed by Don Thompson; written by Robert Bloch based on his story The Mannikin, first published in the April 1937 issue of Weird Tales) Folk musician Simone (Ronee Blakley) returns to the house of her estranged mother, who is recently deceased.
She refuses to attend the funeral or take any belongings, explaining that her mother subjected her to sinister ritualistic elements including seances as a child, before she was removed from the home.
Shortly thereafter, she begins experiencing unexplained phenomena; she hears her mother's voice calling her name, starts suffering from disorienting dizzy spells and comes down with an excruciating pain in her back.
(Directed by Robert Fuest; written by Robert Fuest based on The Island, by L.P. Hartley,[4] first published in his 1924 collection Night Fears) A soldier named Lt. Simmonds (John Hurt) travels (with difficulty, since the boatman from the mainland is uncooperative) to the island mansion of his married lover Mrs. Santander (Jenny Runacre).