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Je ne parle pas anglais!

—Unnamed French Tourist

Appearing in "Only One to a Customer"

Featured Characters:

  • Jeff Brock (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Unidentified Aliens
    • Numerous unnamed aliens

Other Characters:

  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Unnamed Police Officer
  • Numerous unnamed customers

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Only One to a Customer"

After a pitchman abuses the hospitality of tiny alien visitors by attempting to sell them on the street for profit, they take him back to their planet where he is sold as a toy mechanical giant.

Appearing in "Death Comes Calling"

Featured Characters:

  • John Hilton (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Dr. Santer (Only in flashback)
  • Death

Other Characters:

  • John Hilton's Lawyer (Mentioned)
  • Bill Sturges (Mentioned) (Deceased)
  • Harry "the Finger" Gersten (First appearance; dies)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Death Comes Calling"

John Hilton is diagnosed with a terminal illness that will kill him in two months. John decides to take all his savings and sell his properties to live life to the fullest until his end. Nearing the time of death John prepares a pot of poisoned coffee so that he may end his own life before the pain of his disease can overcome him, but right before the scheduled time his door rings and his hotel room. John answers the door and there staring back at him is the figure of Death taking the form of John. John invites Death into the room and Death quietly sits at the table. John knowing that his time his almost up begins to accept the situation. His phone rings and John excuses himself. On the phone is John's doctor who tells him that he made a mistake and that John will live.

John goes back to Death and informs them. Death already knows that John's results were confused for another as they have just visited them. John now scared that Death may still take him runs to his room packs and flees the hotel room. Death still sitting there remarks to themselves that they did not come for John. At that moment a thief named Harry "the Finger" Gersten breaks into the apartment. The following day the newspapers announce his death as having drank the poisoned coffee.

Appearing in "The Albatross!"

Featured Characters:

  • Joey Brian (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Nancy Belle (Main story and flashback)
    • Eric (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback) (Ghost, soul or spirit)
    • Manny (Only in flashback)
    • Unnamed Captain (Only in flashback)
    • Numerous unnamed crewmembers (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

Vehicles:

  • Nancy Belle (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Synopsis for "The Albatross!"

When a sailor kills an albatross, which represents good luck to the crew, the ship flounders with a dead radio until the men lash the sailor to the mast with the albatross tied around his neck as punishment. When the man dies, the ship's bad fortune clears, and they make their way back to port.

Appearing in "The Barefoot Man"

Featured Characters:

  • Pablo (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Criminal (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

Races and Species:

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Synopsis for "The Barefoot Man"

A thief desires to acquire a pair of boots for the status that it will afford him, so he steals the first pair that he comes across, but they belong to a murderer and the authorities track him down by the prints his boots leave in the dirt.

Appearing in "Deep Down"

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Caretaker

Supporting Characters:

  • Zeke (First appearance)
  • Numerous unnamed underground men

Antagonists:

  • Dragila (First appearance)

Races and Species:

  • Humans
  • Dragilas (First appearance)

Locations:

Synopsis for "Deep Down"

A man is chased by a monster in a cave and so blocks him in with a large gold nugget. He wants the gold but cannot figure out how to remove it without the monster getting him. Every year for 50 years he has returned to the surface and recruited another to help him think of a way to acquire the gold without being attacked. The story ends when all 50 men leave the cave after deciding that there was no way and the gold wasn't worth the effort.

Appearing in "Sarah"

Featured Characters:

  • Sarah Harper (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Saunders (Sarah Harper's Butler)
  • Angus Darby (First appearance)
  • Unnamed French Tourist

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Sarah"

A woman attempts to steal a sword that used to belong to Benedict Arnold from a farmer who dug it up on his property, but when she is confronted by a silent, grinning stranger whom she takes to be a rival collector, her shame gets the better of her and she confesses her theft to a passing police car rather than be turned over to the police by the man. After the police lead her away, the man is revealed to be a French tourist seeking directions who knows no English.

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