When a boy finds himself drawn into an empty house one cold night, he enters a room in which 12 unusal-looking people sit around a table. And the 13th chair is pulled out for him. One by one, each of those assembled tells their own ghost story: tales of doom and death; of ghostly creatures and malevolent spirits; of revenge and reward.

It is only at the end of the night that the boy starts to understand what story he must tell.