
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.

A rich recluse Claudia Menlo (Crawford) who has been sightless throughout her life will spare no expense to see. Sidney (Bosley) plays a small time petty hood who owes money and will do anything to get it. Claudia gets Sidney to agree to give up his eyes for the money he needs. Claudia tells her eye doctor that she knows there is an experimental procedure so that she might see again. It turns out that Claudia's doctor is one of only four eye doctors in the world that can perform the risky surgery. In an experimental optic nerve transplant that will give Claudia at most (12) hours to see, but she is not deterred. Claudia doggedly hounds the doctor to acquiesce to her demands and perform the surgery using blackmail. What transpires can only be called, short sighted...
A strange shadow appears on the family homes wall after a woman dies while under her brothers care.
A failed comedian finds a swami who will grant him one wish.. but things don't go as planned.
A man murders his wife to escape her nagging voice... but discovers that there is no escape.
A desperate businessman tries to escape into the past via a bar that is about to be torn down.
A handicapped man comes up with a unique way to overcome his adversity.
A boy's gift for prophecy pressures him when he forecasts disaster.
A babysitter fears that the baby is a monster.
Peter Lacland asks a doctor to amputate his possessed hand.
A comic twist on "Phantom of the Opera."
Fleeing thief Doran hides in the funeral home of odd Mr Soames.
A wife uses bricks and mortar to help her ill husband.
Vincent Price stars as a professor who gives a strange lecture to his students on human psychology, dealing with the fear of those who are not like us and prejudices with a big twist toward the end of the lecture.
Witches prepare a vile dish.
Craig Lowell suspects that his wife's sweet Aunt Ada is actually a sinister witch.
Igor fails to improve Doctor Jekyll's potion.
Callous disc jockey J. J. Wilson finds himself spinning platters at a hellish radio station.
Misanthropic Justus Walters is tormented by a spider.
A man brings some water to his unusual son.
Braggart Roger Blacker waits out a storm with a mysterious surgeon.
Jeff Holston checks out a military academy for his wayward son.
Psychiatrist Joel Winter investigates the claims of his asylum patient, hippie Gideon, that a pretty girl from a nearby farm is killing his patients.
A strange little boy is drawn deeper and deeper into a fantasy world. The Haslemans worry when their son becomes obsessed with snow that's talking to him.
A fearless colonel bets $10,000 that he can survive one night in a haunted mansion but he learns that the past can haunt you worse than any ghost can.
Dracula explains to his grandson how he served his country against the Nazis.
Hitch-hiking Marine Vince Riley feels he has met the woman who picks him up before.
During a stay at her family's summer home, friendless Brenda Alden traps a strange creature in a quarry and befriends it.
A strange diary shows gossip columnist her sad future.
Dracula visits a blood bank with an odd request.
Hawkins the hermit promises a surprise to three boys if they dig for it.
Professor Peabody publicly ridicules Lovecraftian gods.
Adulterer takes his wife to a house that's haunted to get rid of her.
A vampire is repelled by a good excuse.
A charlatan sells a fake healing potion in the Old West.
A man who dies in a car accident ends up in his own personal version of hell.
In 19th-century Montana, new village schoolteacher Judith Timm bonds with the specter of Joel Robb, a fourth grader who died in an accident years ago.
A man reports his car stolen in order to meet the woman of his dreams, literally,
Lovelorn Mavis Goldsmith ignores her reclusive art teacher Pickman's warning not to follow him home.
A fake fortune-telling racket is disrupted by adultery.
When a woman enters an elevator, a ghoul is asked to remove his hat.
A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment.
Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device.
Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down on paper.
On Christmas Eve, a young Jewish boy goes out seeking the Messiah to save his dying grandfather.
Mikey Goldman searches for the Messiah to comfort his dying grandfather Abe.
In the near future, a disfigured boy's only chance for a normal life is an exchange program with a newly-discovered alien race.
Paul Koch agrees to a unique solution that might help his hideously ugly son find acceptance.
When a man goes deep into the jungle in search of his missing brother, he encounters a witch doctor with strange supernatural powers involving shrunken heads.
Nasty land developer Mike Saunders is ready to destroy a widow with a green thumb to get her land.
Mortician, Morton Silkline arranges a late funeral for an unusual client, Ludwig Asper.
The first segment of Night Gallery Is a funny one, with Werner Klemperer, who is arranging his own funeral. And quite a ceremony it turns out to be, with the "dead man" climbing into his own coffin, and his mourners an unruly lot of monsters. The second segment has Pernell Roberts and Susan Oliver as a couple on the verge of divorce who are helped by a persistent juke box. The jukebox in a diner repeatedly plays the same sad song. And the final segment will be distasteful to many people. It stars Elsa Lanchester as an old lady with "green fingers," who can make anything grew. Cameron Mitchell is the man who wants to buy the property she doesn't want to sell.
A fisherman captures a mermaid... and falls in love with her.
Impoverished Cora Peddington shops for a cheap funeral for her husband.
Sheila Grey's homely suitor Henry Mallory gives her a brooch that seems almost alive.
A supposedly paralyzed man comes to the shrine at Camafeo and gets a demonstration of the power of faith.
A Scottish widow turns to an American tourist for protection from the ghost of her husband.
Gunfighter Sam Dichter gets his just desserts in a saloon from which there's no escape.
Attorney Bruce Tarraday is tormented by the statue of a Druid sorcerer which his wife impulsively bought, claiming that it resembles him.
Anatomy teacher John Fletcher, who uses grave robbers to get bodies, learns a lesson.
A strange woman goes to the police to report her husband for attempted murder.
Criminal Landau doubts the credentials of aging exporter Bullivant.
Adulterous Moira uses witchcraft to dispose of her sickly husband Owen.
Arthur Porter threatens to cut off his freeloading nephew, who turns to the occult for revenge and summons a demon.
In ancient Scotland, a young boy is forced to take on his father's role as Sin Eater to keep himself and his mother from starving.
The Fultons delight in the sadistic torture of their servants, but, may have met their match when a new robot maid arrives.
A dissolute young man lusting after a plantation owner's wife comes up with a plan to infect the owner with a deadly earwig... but his plan backfires.
The government plays up to a genius' delusion that his dead daughter still lives so he can finish his experiments even though his mind is still clouded.
A man goes to a talent agency to find a secretary who will meet his unique tastes.
Sheriff Ned Harlow thinks that the skyrocketing death rate in town is tied in to funeral director Walt Peckinpah's January clearance sale.
In an office building, a man in a crowded elevator asks one of the aliens that are riding with him to leave and wait for the next one, since the elevator can hold only 10 people. The alien has another idea.
Sorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Arabic source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being flayed over burning coals and slowly dismembered.
Photographer David Faulker is frightened by the "hungry eyes" of his new reclusive model that no man can resist.
A gangster under constant threat of death seeks escape but falls into the wrong hands.
After her sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent returns home, only to hear Marian - a dancer - tapping across the floor upstairs in the room where she died.
Bumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead - but she hasn't died yet.
A photographer meets a vampire.
A businessman receives a blackmail note and ends up at a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere... with a vengeful grandfather out to avenge a murder.
An author and his lovely wife move into an old big house left to them by his late uncle Zachariah on the condition that they are never to open a mysterious trunk there that someone will come for. The house starts driving them insane.
A prison lifer seeking an escape--any escape--proves highly susceptible to hypnotism and wins the ultimate freedom.
After years of caring for his invalid wife, newly widowed Henry Auden thinks he'll be happy living alone. His wife's friend sends him her orange tabby cat to keep him company while she's away on vacation, but the loneliness gets to him.
Newly crowned boxing champ Jim Figg is taken to a mysterious elite hotel, where he's to fight an old boxing champ that no one has ever beaten.
Spurned wife Molly Wheatland uses spirits (bottled and otherwise) to get back at her ex-husband Charlie despite the lethargic spirit's objection.
A lonely woman named Hyacinth lives on a barge anchored in a canal, is marooned by her fear of crossing running water, and sleeps during the day - in a coffin. She and a local boy fall in love.
Irene is a natural medium often unwillingly possessed by lost souls, which starts to worry her young husband Charlie Evans, since she's having more and more trouble controlling them, especially when it comes to one grieving mother.
During the colonial era in the British West Indies, bitter plantation owner Alex Brandon uses voodoo to try to get revenge on his runaway bride Sheila Trent's ex lover Raphael, after she elopes with Raphael.
On the Kenyan veldt, a wild gorilla named N'Gi disrupts the marital harmony between anthropologists Ruth and Grant Wilson.
In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.