On a hot day, sympathetic Sheriff Koch and callous con man Peter Sykes are among the many who gather in a desert town to see young Luis Gallegos hanged for accidentally killing a child while drunk. Can some magic dust save Luis?
At a Washington, D.C. club, socialite Peter Corrigan argues whether it would be possible to change history via time travel. When he leaves, he lands in 1865 on the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and tries to stop it.
Unscrupulous used car salesman Harvey Hunnicutt buys a Model A car whose elderly owner swears it is haunted. This new acquisition dooms the wheeler-dealer to tell only the truth.
Gaining telepathic abilities when his coin lands on its edge, bank clerk Hector B. Poole learns about the difference between other people's plans and fantasies.
Timid vacuum-cleaner salesman and perennial punching bag Luther Dingle is given the strength of three hundred men by experimenting aliens and soon becomes a local celebrity.
An old radio is taking bitter bachelor Ed Lindsay back to a happier time before what he considers worthless tripe on television when he starts picking up radio programs from the 1930s and 1940s.
Compulsive gambler Ace Larsen cajoles his friend Jimbo Cobb to use his telekinesis to influence the results of the Las Vegas gambling tables in their favor.
A toy telephone given as a birthday gift becomes the link between young Billy Bayles and his newly deceased beloved grandmother, but this link becomes dangerous when she apparently wants him to join her on the other side.
In 1847, settler Christian Horn from a wagon train sets out to locate medicine to help his gravely ill son and somehow stumbles into a greasy spoon cafe in 1961 New Mexico.
After successfully stealing a gold shipment, a group of criminals and their scientist accomplice put themselves in suspended animation in a remote desert cave. When they awaken decades later, complications ensue when their truck is destroyed.
Annoyed by fellow country club member Jamie Tennyson's constant chatter, Colonel Archie Taylor bets half a million dollars that Jamie cannot be completely silent for one year while living in a glass enclosure in the club's basement.
Convicted killer Adam Grant is trapped in a recurring nightmare in which he is sentenced to death by electrocution. He tries to convince those around him that they are imaginary and will cease to exist if he is executed.
Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship on a winter night, state troopers Bill Padgett and Dan Perry try to determine who among the bus passengers at a snowed-in roadside diner is a visitor from another world.
A dinner party for Bill Stockton's birthday is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare, they turn against the Stockton's, the only family that installed a bomb shelter.
While headed home at the Civil War's end, a Confederate Sergeant meets anguished Lavinia Godwin, who is convinced that her husband Jud is now deceased.
Frustrated pool champion Jesse Cardiff has beaten everyone except for the deceased James Howard "Fats" Brown. Jesse can only curse his name. But guess who just walked into the pool room on Randolph Street?
Central American revolutionary Ramos Clemente receives a gift from General De Cruz, the tyrant that Ramos deposed: a mirror that shows Ramos images of his potential assassins.
After being hired to track down outlaw Pinto Sykes but failing, Old West lawman Conny Miller is challenged by the townsmen who killed Sykes to visit Sykes' freshly dug grave and prove how courageous he is.
On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
Former German SS Captain Gunther Lutze returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing about the power he enjoyed there during "the good old days", until he finds himself on trial by the ghosts of those who died at his hands.
When Earth deviates from its normal orbit and moves closer to the sun, painter Norma and her landlady Mrs. Bronson try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned New York City.
In June 1863, Confederate scout Joseph Paradine come across an elderly warlock named Teague, whose book of black magic can help bring victory to the Southern cause inn the Civil War.
Engineer Alan Richards who has recently come home to New York City from his company's controversial hydroelectric project in Africa is plagued by both superstitions and the dire warnings of a native witch doctor.
An Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.
On the last day of World War II in the Pacific, hot-shot new Lieutenant Katell tries to make his mark on military history and receives a unique perspective on his actions.