After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm"...
The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.
Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.