A down-on-his-luck comic book artist takes the advice his editor to create a new comic book to scare him otherwise he will be fired to heart; a pick pocket gets paranoid after stealing a winning lottery ticket from a bragging man in a small bar. After apparently losing the ticket, he has to go back to “working” the bar only to get arrested; a well known mystery writer has a ghostly experience while working on his new novel; a wicked landlady is driven to madness after kicking out a tenant when he is unable to pay his rent; a teenage girl with an interest in witchcraft is tricked into joining a coven of good witches after cursing her psychologist.