The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.

A mysterious writer working for a monster fanzine asks three New Yorkers what really scares them. After the article is published the primal fears of each interviewee come true. Will they be frightened to death?

A psychologist for inmates has knowledge of a secret, experimental brain implant, designed to change convicts' behavior so that they will not remember or repeat their crimes and, therefore, be able to return productively to society rather than remain in an increasing prison population. The procedure, however, suffers some imperfections...

A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.