Three directors each accommodate a Poe short story to the monitor:"Toby Dammit" comes with a disheveled drugged and drunk British movie celebrity who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his own producers fawn on him. "Metzengerstein" comes with a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship having a black stallion - who it turns out is really her deceased lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an specific dual whom he subsequently kills.