In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

Five children enter a haunted house and find an old woman. She promises to tell them six scary stories that they won't be able to handle.

An elderly grandmother and others spy on a neighbor.

A traveling salesman arrives in an unnamed Indian village. He tells of an incurable illness that a holy man blames on lust and six good-hearted men go to the city to seek a cure.