A librarian's husband and mother-in-law turn out to be psychotically abusive. When the husband mistakenly thinks he has killed her, he dumps her in a river, where she is saved by a fisherman. Desperate for money and in need of help to take revenge on her husband, she hooks up with a bank robber whom she falls in love with. Together, they return to her husband's home and kill him.

A young man achieves success as a singer, affecting everyone around him.

Wanting a better life for his baby, a driver switches his son for his employers’ newborn girl, forever entwining the futures of both families and enacting a series of violent consequences.

From the haunted halls of the abbey in the past, a murderous rampage on Halloween in the present, to a monstrous apocalypse in the future; the seventeenth installment brings three tales of terror through every cycle.