A college professor teaching a course called"The Psychology of Panic" attracts his students (including a psychic) to his dwelling, just one dark and stormy night to share with scary stories. The first calls for a young couple whose car breaks down with an old, abandoned house. The next chased with a pack of vicious dogs and has four fashionable adolescent girls getting lost in a poor part of town. Last, a female on crutches confronting a stalker at the answering ceremony where she works the night shift.