该作是以即便杀了也绝不会死去，因其美貌而让男人们陷入恐怖之中的“富江”，和喜欢用“让你陷入恐怖之中”的口癖来诅咒人的“双一”等，代表伊藤润二作品的角色们为首，在每一集中让个性丰富的主人公登场的集锦动画。

Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

《美女税》为了应对严苛的财政压力，日本政府出台“美女税”，即向那些在现实生活中因为容貌得到不少额外福利的美女征税。美丽的OL爱子（佐佐木希 饰）被征税额高达20%，虽然有些吃不消，她却渐渐为此沾沾自喜。《做梦机器》在现实生活中郁郁不得志的健二（洼田正孝 饰）意外发现母亲是一个机器人，此后他开始意识到周遭种种的不协调，继而意识到绝大多数的都市人都变成了机器人，而他们的本体隐藏在某个角落中。 《通勤军队》因纳豆的缘故，茨城县宣布独立，并与日本政府发生战争。政府高额聘请各界人士担当通勤军人。某武器生产企业的员工（西岛秀俊 饰）阴差阳错加入军队，由此感受到前所未有的活力。《猜谜大叔》不就刚刚在电视上获得“猜谜大王”称号的古贺三郎（高桥一生 饰），某天迎来了意外访客——猜谜大叔（松重丰 饰）。对方源源不断提出各种问题，难道说这就是获奖附赠的一年份猜谜？

Alone in the chapel of hope on Christmas Eve Reverend Bernice hates Christmas,since her mother was carried off by Papa Lazarou disguised as Santa Claus when she was a child. She has three visitors. The first is Charlie Hull,convinced from his recurring nightmare that his wife Stella is using a voodoo coven called the Solutions to stop him winning the line-dance contest. Then an old man who visited Herr Lipp and his wife in 1975 recounts the saga of Lipp's fascination with cute young choirboy Matthew and his belief that Lipp was a vampire. Finally Chinnery comes to unburden himself as to why he is such a bad vet. In Victorian times his great-great-grandfather,the finest vet in England,came to Royston Vasey but was tricked into touching the wrong monkey's testicle,as a result of which all succeeding vets in the family have been cursed. Bernice feels happier after consoling Chinnery but she is unaware that history is about to repeat itself.