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A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats

But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost

These were the swift to harry...

The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

A turn-of-the-century newlywed claims that her evil twin sister is responsible for a series of fires set in orphanages. When her husband has the claim investigated, he learns that his wife's sister died years ago -- in a fire at the orphanage where the sisters lived . . .

During WWII, a drunken pharmacist's mate must operate on the injured captain of his ship. The chief medical officer on a near-by ship assists the terrified young man perform the operation by providing instructions over the ship's radio. But at a crucial moment in the operation, the young man needs much more than this . . . and he receives it from an unearthly source . . .

A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.

Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their wedding he is compelled to drive with her to Cornwall for a vacation, at the encouragement of his friend Geoffrey, with him stopping abruptly at the door of one cottage within which a woman dwells, one who has grieved the loss of her own fiance lost in the World War of '16, two days before their wedding was to have been. Apparently, Paul is his reincarnation since he was born when her fiance died as Paul instantly understands when he spies his likeness in that photograph on the mantle, the engagement picture. Now closure seems to happen for them all.

A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.

An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.

Flores, flores para los muertos.

The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.

On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""

Persistence of evil vision.

Its long arm finally resolves an eyewitness and an alibi.

General Washington doubts, but is saved.

Neither shadow of turning.

Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.

Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for automobiles.

An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.

no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett

An old railroad man keeps his promise.

A British army officer stationed in Hong Kong frantically searches for his missing Oriental wife before his scheduled return to the US. In desperation he seeks the help of an old Chinese man . . . who writes a cryptic message on paper and tells him to look for his wife in the ""House of the Dead"" . . .

Young Henri Lamont, shy and desperate for a girlfriend, is staggered to find that when he goes into a certain room and looks out of the window he sees himself walking down the street with a beautiful young girl and decides to investigate how this could have come about.

A hands-on approach.

A man returns to his past.

While vacationing at a tropical resort, a cynical and unhappy young man meets a beautiful young lady who speaks cryptically about the many times they've met before. The two fall instantly in love -- but the next day he cannot find her . . . and the other resort guests claim he spent the evening alone.

A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.

...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.

Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

A mute carnival clown witnesses the abusive relationship between a beautiful young lady and her cruel husband. After fleeing from her husband, the young lady seeks refuge in the clown's trailer. The husband burst in, commits an act of violence, and then flees – only to find the spectral presence of the clown haunting his every step.

While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.

While on patrol during WWII, a German U-boat attempts to evade detection from the sonar of the American and British ships. But their location is repeatedly betrayed by the noise of a rhythmic banging sound caused by someone . . . or something . . . on board the submarine.

""Let her paint an inch thick...""

The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

The condemned man's not for hanging.

An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.

A man with a rare blood type is asked to save a young lady's life by donating blood. He refuses, claiming that each time he has given blood to someone in the past, he became psychically connected to them. After relenting and saving the young lady's life, he foresees her death and becomes obsessed with protecting her.

In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Dead reckoning.

A man is found innocent of his wife's murder. Her brother arrives from New Zealand and precipitates the real culprit's capture.

A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.

An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.

World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

""This dust was once the man."" (Whitman)

Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her. Soon afterwards she is walking alone through a park when a would-be mugger approaches her, but he is scared off by the sudden appearance of what looks to be some sort of spirit.

A reporter makes a find in the Yukon.

In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.

A Londoner hears a child crying for help.

The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.

How the past determines the future.

A room with a view.

The nuptial visage.

A turn-of-the-century English family hides a dark secret: a son who was born part human and part aquatic creature. A discredited doctor attempts to use his controversial ""mind force"" (a powerful hypnotic technique) to physically transform the unfortunate young man.