THE GATE CRASHER:   A mid-twenties man, Edward, purchases an antique mirror with which he invites friends over to his dark apartment for a seance. But the seance brings out a trapped soul in the mirror which demands that Edward bring him unsuspecting victims so that it can escape. But one victim is not enough. He wants more ... and so poor Edward becomes a nightstalker in the streets of London and brings home prostitutes and when runs out of victims, he lures in the apartment building superintendent. After a handful of victims are fed to the mirror, the trapped soul makes his escape into the real world and exchanges places with Edward. The cycle now has to repeat in order for Edward's soul to escape.

AN ACT OF KINDNESS:   A bored salesman, Christopher Lowe, walks the city streets and meets up with a middle-aged male matches street vendor, Jim Underwood, who sells him a box of matches. The two men exchange pleasantries and then Christopher enters Temptations Limited to buy a war medal. After several match purchases, Christopher is invited into the match seller's home where he meets his mysterious daughter, Emily, and dines with father and daughter and the threesome become friends. Emily seduces Christopher and then asks him to "wish" for something, but the wish *must* be made verbally. Christopher wishes that he could get rid of his wife, and so Emily goes to work. She makes a voodoo doll in her likeness and then poor Mrs. Lowe begins a downward spiral into an eternal nightmare. She feels bad headaches, and loses locks of her hair and is thrown into a state of shock when she sees shadows of a woman dressed in black standing at her bedside in the wee hours of the night. Christopher watches as Emily stabs the doll which starts to bleed. Christopher is shocked and runs home to find his wife dead. Emily's father then arranges for Christopher and Emily to get married. At the reception, Emily asks Christopher if she can "cut" the cake. When Christopher replies "yes", Emily makes a clean cut into the cake decoration of "Christopher". The decoration bleeds. The camera zooms in on Christopher whose head is cut open! Scary! Hey! Becareful what you wish for!

THE ETERNAL:   An older man, Reggie Warren, enters Temptations Limited, and purchases a silver cigarette holder. On his way home by train, he meets a very chatty female passenger who talks to him endlessly while he's trying to read the paper. Before he leaves, she hands him her business card. She's a medium. He laughs and heads home. Strange things start to happen that evening. Reggie's wife insists that he is physically abusing her while he sleeps at night. She also feels a presence in the room close to her shoulder. Reggie finally calls in the "exorcist" who arrives to held them get rid of their resident ghost. After causing a household "earthquake" the chatty exorcist leaves. Everything seems to have returned to normal. But later that night, Mrs. Warren becomes possessed and kills her husband.

   

THE DOORS:   A young male writer, William Seaton, living on a budget enters Temptations Limited and is interested in buying a creepy looking steel door that has a 3D demon face ingrained into it. The store owner asks for 50 pounds, but William offers 40 pounds. He says that this is all he can afford. The store owner agrees and walks away from his open cash register to write up a receipt after accepting 40 one-pound notes. William's door is delivered to his home and he attaches it to the main-floor pantry. He notices that the door rubs off BLOOD!! Later that evening, Williams opens the door when he hears noises coming from behind it. To his astonishment, he sees that the door leads into another dimension ... it has travelled back in time a few centuries and he is greeted by a strange man who tells him that this special room has to be "fed". He needs sacrifices that have, as he terms it, "endearing qualities". He later kidnaps Mrs. Seaton. William tries to fight the vampire but he doesn't have the strength. As a last resort, he attacks the door with a blunt instrument. Suddenly the vampire seems to lose his grip momentarily. William continues to pound away at the door, finally breaking off its hinges. The vampire drops Mrs. Seaton and screams out in agony. William continues to attack the door screaming at his wife to try to escape. Mrs. Seaton finally breaks away from the vampire and the couple makes a narrow escape through the door back to safety. The vampire turns into a bag of bones and fades away.

  

Back at the store, the antique store owner counts his money from his most recent transaction. 38 ... 39 ... 40 pounds received in one-pound notes. He pauses. Suddenly a thief enters the premises and points a gun at him, demanding the loot from the cash register. The store owner refuses. The thief shoots at him. The bullets hit him, but bounce off. The thief, shocked and scared, backs away, firing bullets nonstop. He trips and falls into an open coffin. The coffin slams shut.

In three out of the four tales, each of the customers had tried to cheat the store owner in some way. In "The Gate Crasher", Edward lied when he said that he only had 40 pounds. The price was 50 pounds. The store owner knew he told a lie. In "An Act Of Kindness", Christopher Lowe lied about his background in the war so that he could buy the medal. The shop owner knew he lied. In "The Eternal", the old customer thought he could get away by switching price tags and paying less for the silver cigarette holder. But the shop owner was peeking out from the back room. He saw everything. But in "The Door", the shop owner thought that William Seaton would take back some money from the cash register while he turned his back ... but he didn't. So, the curse didn't work. And the dumb thief ... well ... he got what he deserved.

The four tales are told in the style of Rod Serling's weekly series "The Night Gallery." Released in 1973, FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE runs 1 hour and 40 minutes. In 1975, the film was re-released in the United States under the title "Creatures".