A bemused would-be poet gets himself entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician. Also includes a featurette: Trying to Offend Everyone.

An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.

During the 1950s, aspiring poet John M. Brinnin goes on a week-long retreat to save his hero, poet Dylan Thomas.

Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life and work. Despite her skepticism, the two begin to investigate,...

A disgraced theater critic and poet is invited to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.