A group of professional Moscow investigators consisting of three people – Alexey Khromov, his assistant Igor Lyamin and forensic expert Olga Barysheva – specializes in solving mysterious crimes…
Set in the USA, the plot concerns Thomas Norton, a researcher in the field of lie detection, who provides his services to courts and private industry. One day he idly attaches electrodes to a plant in his office, and is surprised to find it responds with recognisable emotional reactions to the stimuli he gives it. He pursues this research, and keeps a plant wired up in his lab. When a woman who lives in his building is mysteriously murdered in his lab, the plant is the only witness to the crime.
Set in the 1980s in the remote and fear-stricken, eerie village of Viraatapalem, which faces a strange chilling curse – every bride dies mysteriously on her wedding day, halting marriages for over a decade. A determined police constable refuses to believe this superstition and, along with a reformed convict, begins to unearth shocking secrets the villagers want hidden.
Xu Song, the sole survivor of a brutal family massacre, undergoes a painful transformation and returns to his hometown disguised as the night watchman Mao Xiaoshan. As he investigates eerie supernatural occurrences, he uncovers a dark conspiracy behind his family’s downfall. Armed with years of Maoshan training, he embarks on a relentless quest for vengeance, facing ghosts, betrayal, and deadly foes in a final battle for justice.
Where's Anne Rice when you really need her? Self-described medium Derek Acorah travels to Egypt where he communes with the spirits of King Tut and other long-departed personalities, aided by Sam, his Ethiopian spirit guide.