In the first story, a corrupt and manipulative gold digger named Jessica Valdemar schemes to acquire the wealth of her elderly, terminally ill husband, Ernest Valdemar. She conspires with her lover, who is also her husband's doctor, to keep Ernest sedated and sign over his estate rights before his impending death. However, their plan takes a nightmarish turn when Ernest dies while under a hypnotic trance, which inexplicably maintains his consciousness between the realms of the dead and the living. The couple soon finds themselves entangled in a horrifying situation as they try to conceal their deeds, and the boundary between life and death becomes ominously blurred.

The second tale revolves around Rod Usher, a hot-tempered and egotistic crime scene photographer with a penchant for manipulating his gruesome work photos to artistic extremes. His callous disregard for the dead, along with his abrasive behavior, puts a strain on his relationship with his girlfriend, Annabel. Unbeknownst to her, Rod's morbid obsession begins spiraling into madness as he grows fixated on Edgar Allan Poe's works. When he discovers that a seemingly wealthy cat has been named the beneficiary of a large fortune, his sanity is further tested. Driven by greed and Poe's haunting themes, Rod embarks on a dark path that triggers a chain of events steeped in macabre consequences, leading him down a road from which there may be no return.