Seventeen-year-old Billy Weaver is charmed by the bizarrely cheap and cozy Bed and Breakfast he stumbles upon, only to discover that his sweet, forgetful landlady has a sinister connection to her last two tenants.
Convinced that the skeleton inside him is a hostile, separate entity trying to take over his life, a perpetually anxious man seeks out a questionable “bone specialist” whose strange, whistling methods only confirm his terrifying delusion.
A curious writer investigating a long-abandoned church in Providence unwittingly awakens an ancient, malevolent entity drawn to darkness, leading to his terrifying, inevitable doom.
A meticulous criminal's perfect plan to escape with his stolen fortune is undone by an extra, seemingly harmless inoculation during his pre-flight medical check, which subjects him to a nine-month, living hell of physiological torture on his journey to Mars.