The Three Faces of Fear

(1) "Il Telefono": Rosy receives many phone calls threatening her. She believes her former lover, who has just escaped from prison, is calling her. She denounced him for a crime committed time ago and he was convicted. She calls her girlfriend Mary to stay with her. A secret is revealed and a tragedy happens in the end. (2) "I Wurdulak": Vladimire d'Urfe, a young man, is riding a horse at night and finds a man with a knife in his back. He withdraws the dagger from the man and finds a house close to the place where he found the body. There he meets a family composed of two brothers, one sister, one sister-in-law, and one nephew, and he falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Sdenka. He realizes that the dead man was a criminal, probably killed by Gorca, the head of the family, and he is advised to leave that place before Gorca returns at midnight. The family informs him that there is a chance that Gorca might have been transformed into a Wurdulak, a kind of vampire who drains blood from the living persons. A few seconds after midnight, Gorca returns, and the terrified family doesn't know whether or not he has been transformed; later they discover, in a tragic way, what happened. (3)"La Goccia d' Acqua": Helen Chester is called to prepare the body of a countess for her funeral. She steals the worthy ring from her finger. The countess comes back from beyond to retrieve her ring, terrifying the frightened woman.