First story, That's the Way to Do It, deals with an older man who runs a Punch & Judy puppet show. His wife and step-son are cruel, and want him to stop doing puppet shows. The puppets return to get revenge for him.
The second story is Dreamhouse, which has a couple, recently moved into a house, dealing with a variety of strange sounds and creepy visions and such.
The last one is Do You Believe in Fairies? A pair of brothers are looking to get some cash to support their hobby, and one of them takes a job being a handyman for a pair of old ladies. After finding that they keep all their money on hand, they resolve to rob the ladies.
It's not a quality anthology. None of the stories are especially great. Dreamhouse was actually the best story though, because there's a delightful little twist to the story that I really didn't see coming. The first story is passable, but not interesting. The last story is really weird. It's not scary, it just reaches into a very strange place, rather than keeping things a little more understandable.
What makes this anthology interesting is that the framing device is clearly set in New York, but every story is a British production. Not just a British production, but the stories - at least the first and last - seem like they're trying to be distinctly British. The Punch & Judy show is mostly a European thing (although it seems to have been popular in the US for a time). The last story deals both with fairies and garden gnomes, but of which are much more popular in the UK.
I also wanted point out some fantastically exploitative box art for this movie.
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