As serial killer Lothar Schramm lies dying in his own blood, horrific memories of his miserable life of paranoia, self-harm and rejection flash before his eyes. A tragic look into the mind of a serial killer.
Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination.
"Number 13" tells the tale of when in order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition.
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.
After finding an intriguing ring on a deserted beach, retired academic James Parkin soon becomes the victim of a supernatural revenge. But who is the avenger?
A museum curator receives a very disturbing engraving that changes each time he and his colleagues look at it.