- During World War II, in Nazi-occupied Norway, a state police officer sets out on a quest to find the Necronomicon, the Book of the Dead.
- In 1816 the thirty-five year old Baroness, Jacquette Du Rietz dies.Count Gustaf Piper's grief is huge and in his despair he lets embalm his beloved Jacquette.
- Travis is an underground comic book artist with a penchant for the obscene. When one of his comics insults a Chinatown crime boss, the gangster punishes Travis by removing his drawing hand. A daunted Travis retreats into a life of alcoholic misery. That is, until his hand returns from the grave...