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Several customers visit an antique shop, and those that try to cheat the proprietor find themselves suffering strange and horrible fates.

I quite like this anthology from Amicus. I like all the stories at least a little, with my favorite being the second ("An Act of Kindness"), in which a man in a bad marriage strikes up a friendship with a poor veteran and his rather strange daughter (played to wonderful perfection by real life father and daughter Donald and Angela Pleasance). The last story (about a room behind an ominous door) is fairly straightforward, but colorful and entertaining. The first story (about a haunted mirror) is the most obvious tale of the bunch, but it is hauntingly moody and makes wonderful use of smoke. The third story (about a man haunted by an elemental) is amusing enough at first, but I found the ending a little weak. It's all tied together by the framing story of the visits to the antique shop, and Peter Cushing is wonderful as the soft-spoken proprietor who you really don't want to cheat, no matter what sort of temptation comes your way. All in all, this was a fairly solid horror anthology.