A Confederate officer is offered a deal with Satan to help his troops.
Alan Richard's company is building a dam in Africa. He tells his board members that the local witch doctors have put a curse on the project. The board members scoff, but they find that they all have superstitious items about them.
A janitor, Woodrow Mulligan, uses a time helmet developed by his boss to move forward in time seventy-two years.
Five characters, a ballet dancer, a hobo, a clown, a bagpiper, and an army Major, find themselves trapped inside a cylindrical object with no memory of how they got there.
In World War II a young Lieutenant orders his troops to mount a suicidal attack on a group of weary Japanese soldiers. Sergeant Causarano tries to change his mind but the Lieutenant will have none of it. Suddenly the Lieutenant is transported back in time three years earlier as a Lieutenant in the Japanese army and gets a different perspective.
Wanda Dunn, an elderly woman, is afraid to venture outside her dreary basement apartment because she thinks "Mr. Death" is lying in wait.
Paul Radin invites three people to meet him at his self-built bomb shelter. They are people that Radin feels have wronged him in the past. He fakes a nuclear war and tries to get each person to apologise for their past actions.
Street bum Nate Bledscoe takes a pair of good shoes from a body dumped in the alley. The body happens to be that of a gangster who was the target of a mob hit. The shoes give Nate the personality of the victim, and he continues where he left off.
Hyder Simpson goes hunting with his dog Rip. He comes to find that he has died.