1. The First Born Son
The First Born Son is the ghost of a little boy called Billy Michaels, who was obsessed with cowboy films. Not heeding his parents' advice, he played Cowboys and Indians with a real bow and arrow, and the arrow went straight through his forehead.
2. The Torso
The Torso is the ghost of a gambler called Jimmy Gambino. Losing everything in a poker game, he tried to welch on his bet and escape. The mob, which he owed money to, caught up with Gambino and cut him into several pieces, wrapping them in cellophane and dumping the corpse.
3. The Bound Woman
The Bound Woman was a cheerleader, who, after cheating on her boyfriend preceding a high school prom, was strangled by him, and was later found buried on the football field.
4. The Withered Lover
The Withered Lover is Jean Kriticos, the wife of Arthur. She died in the freak house fire while trying to rescue her children.
5. The Torn Prince
The Torn Prince is the ghost of Royce Clayton, who was a baseball star. He challenged a greaser to a drag race and was killed in the ensuing crash.
6. The Angry Princess
The Angry Princess is Dana Newman, who constantly tried achieving perfection with her looks, despite being beautiful. She gave up eventually after trying to perform cosmetic surgery on herself. She accidentally blinded herself and eventually slit her wrists. She was found with dozens of self-inflicted gashes on her. The movie suggests that she killed herself for another reason (In the scene when she appears in the bathroom, you see the phrase "I'm sorry" on the floor in blood; subtitles also reveal that the blurred, hissing speech that announces her arrival is her whispering "I'm sorry"). "I'm sorry" might also be an expression of regret over having committed suicide in the first place, rather than an apology for something else.
7. The Pilgrimess
The Pilgrimess is the ghost of Isabella Smith, an English woman who travelled across the Atlantic and settled in New England. She was a separatist, and this isolated her from the other townsfolk. She was found guilty of witchcraft, and put to death in the stocks (pillory).
8. The Great Child
Harold was spoiled by his mother, who raised him to be her protector and to exact revenge on the other members of the carnival who ridiculed her. Harold, in rage, took an axe and killed a group of people harassing his mother. Later, both he and his mother were killed by a frenzied mob.
9. The Dire Mother
The Dire Mother is the ghost of Margaret Shelburne, who was an attraction in a carnival due to her being only three feet tall. She was raped by the "tall man" and bore a child, Harold who weighed over 300 pounds (136 kg).
10. The Hammer
The Hammer is the ghost of a blacksmith, George Markley, who lived in a small town in the 1890s. He was driven out of town after wrongfully being accused of stealing. Enraged, he tracked down the people responsible and hammered them to death. The other townsfolk captured him, and they drove large nails into his body and cut off his hands.
11. The Jackal
The Jackal is Ryan Kuhn, a psychotic mental patient with a penchant for attacking women. He was permanently in a straitjacket, and had a metal cage locked around his head. After years of this, he had grown deformed, and reviled human contact. He was the only victim of a fire that broke out in the asylum; he apparently ran into the flames rather than let anyone touch him.
12. The Juggernaut
The Juggernaut was a serial killer named Breaker Mahoney. Standing at seven feet tall, he towed broken-down motorists to his junkyard where he murdered them, tearing them apart with his bare hands. Being impossible to take on in close combat, his pursuers opted for the safer method, and brought him down in a hail of bullets.
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