One Step Beyond

A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--theyre sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.

A female photojournalist on assignment in France takes an apartment and begins to work with a somewhat mysterious male model. Thngs come to a head when she has a brush with the supernatural that could well mean her death.

A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, as are his beliefs in the supernatural, when his son is trapped in a cave-in.

Forewarned is forearmed.

In the trenches in WWI, soldiers as usual are dying like flies as expected. All of a sudden the French troops drop their arms and walk very serenely away from the front. Hearing of this the generals bring them up on charges of dissertion, a capital crime. Tremaine is the advocate for their case. They dont seem to want to defend themselves for their inexplicable behavior, not in a way that makes sense. While waiting for the fateful morn, he seeks out a bottle of something special that they request as a last toast. Beckoned to the cottage of a little French boys family, they are set upon by a German who recounts similar stories of walking away from the front all at the same time on the German side. Rushing back to HQ, Tremaine succeeds in staying the sentence at the last moment, as the officers confirm the veracity of the stories, a mystical event.

A man is known by everyone on a Caribbean island he has never visited before. Soon he too remembers, but he was in the hospital at the time of the supposed visit...

Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

""Let her paint an inch thick...""

A man is found innocent of his wifes murder. Her brother arrives from New Zealand and precipitates the real culprits capture.

An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.

A turn-of-the-century English family hides a dark secret: a son who was born part human and part aquatic creature. A discredited doctor attempts to use his controversial ""mind force"" (a powerful hypnotic technique) to physically transform the unfortunate young man.

A Scottish earl executes his sons lover for being a suspected witch, and with her last words the doomed young women places a curse on the earls family. Hundreds of years later, the current earl of the family lives in fear of this curse – because every elder son in the past has been a victim of it . . . and his time is approaching . . .

A wealthy but cruel woman torments her gigolo boyfriend and her timid maid. But a demoniacally possessed diamond necklace inflicts a horrible punishment on the women who try to wear it.

An English instructor teaching immigrants finds herself writing at the blackboard in a language she doesnt understand. It turns out to be a warning against one of her students.

World War II fliers gathering takes an unusual turn.

A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

A young girl living on a farm acquires the ability to read peoples minds. Her gift proves instrumental in the rescue of two children.

Matters of life and death.

A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

""Im nobody."" (Dickinson)

Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""

An archaeological team becomes lost in the desert, but they encounter a young explorer who possesses life-saving knowledge of the regions ancient history. However, months later the leader of the expedition discovers that the young man he met in the dessert could not possibly be who he claimed to be . . . or could he?

""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs

Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Denmark during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.

While vacationing at a tropical resort, a cynical and unhappy young man meets a beautiful young lady who speaks cryptically about the many times theyve met before. The two fall instantly in love -- but the next day he cannot find her . . . and the other resort guests claim he spent the evening alone.

A prisoners encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

Young Henri Lamont, shy and desperate for a girlfriend, is staggered to find that when he goes into a certain room and looks out of the window he sees himself walking down the street with a beautiful young girl and decides to investigate how this could have come about.

An old railroad man keeps his promise.

As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can save the poor young women – accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.

The Merry Widow?

Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.

...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats

An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

A romance of past and present.

A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.

A reporter makes a find in the Yukon.

Neither shadow of turning.

General Washington doubts, but is saved.

Its long arm finally resolves an eyewitness and an alibi.

A Londoner hears a child crying for help.

The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.

The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.

An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.

While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isnt quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.

Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their wedding he is compelled to drive with her to Cornwall for a vacation, at the encouragement of his friend Geoffrey, with him stopping abruptly at the door of one cottage within which a woman dwells, one who has grieved the loss of her own fiance lost in the World War of 16, two days before their wedding was to have been. Apparently, Paul is his reincarnation since he was born when her fiance died as Paul instantly understands when he spies his likeness in that photograph on the mantle, the engagement picture. Now closure seems to happen for them all.