An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.

A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and 'Baby' Jane Hudson live together. Jane was by far the most famous when she performed with their father in vaudeville but as they got older, it was Blanche who became the finer actress, which Jane still resents. Blanche is now confined to a wheelchair and Jane is firmly in control. As time goes by, Jane exercises greater and greater control over her sister, intercepting her letters and ensuring that few if anyone from the outside has any contact with her. As Jane slowly loses her mind, she torments her sister going to ever greater extremes.