Having no memory of how he got there, German Carl Lanser finds himself aboard the S.S. Glasgow. Lanser fears that they are being stalked by a U-boat and that something will happen at 1.15 a.m.
Three astronauts flying an experimental rocketship for the first time strangely disappear and then reappear from the radar. After they land, they find that all evidence of their existences are slowly being erased from history.
Pavement salesman Pedott has a strange ability; he can give people just what they need. He helps many people in his encounters. When he meets a man called Renard, a cheap hustler, Pedott finds his benevolence exploited.
Arch Hammer, a cheap nickel-and-dime man, has a talent he discovered at an early age; he can contort his face into any shape he wants. When he uses it to escape the demons of his past, he finds he must be careful who he impersonates.
When scientists William Sturka and Jerry Riden believe that a nuclear holocaust is imminent, they decide to escape with their families by stealing an experimental rocketship.
The Arrow one, the Earth's first manned spacecraft, crashes killing three of the eight astronauts on board. Believing they are stranded on an asteroid, and with only five gallons of water left, tensions lead to desperate measures.
Nan Adams has a motor accident while driving across the country from New York to Los Angeles. She has a mechanic put a tyre on her car, and when she comes to drive it away she sees a strange man hitch-hiking. As she drives further on, she somehow sees the same hitch-hiker repeatedly turn up.
Franklin Gibbs loathes gambling. When his wife Flora wins a trip to Las vegas, he is forced to go. While there, he encounters a slot-machine calling his name and is dragged into a world of gambling fever.
When his friend becomes surrounded by enemy planes during a World War I mission, Flight Lieutenant Decker deserts him and flies through a strange white cloud. He lands finding himself at a modern-day American Air base.