Hickory, Dickory, Doom

The Tuckers, a happy young couple in southern Pennsylvania, buy a grandfather clock on a garage sale. The clock strikes ominously and produces strange symbols, disturbing their domestic tranquility. A psychic investigator shows the clock's dark history and the presence of a trapped evil spirit. The climax comes when the clock releases a hunchbacked man and a hellish flame from its depths.

A young married couple named the Tuckers live happily in southern Pennsylvania until they purchase an old grandfather clock at a garage sale. The clock makes scary sounds and shows weird markings that ruin their peaceful home life. A person who talks to spirits tells them about the clock's evil past and explains that a bad spirit is stuck inside it. Everything comes to a head when the clock opens up and lets out a man with a crooked back and terrible fire from hell.

Charlie and Charlotte Tucker, intending to buy a lamp at a garage sale, wind up with a 100-year-old grandfather’s clock that doesn’t chime. When they get it home, though, it immediately starts chiming—no matter what time it is. It also emits cold air when its door is opened, scares the family cat and, finally, catches fire. Frightened, the Tuckers call in a psychic investigator, who discovers the word “Sargatanas” etched inside the clock. Sargatanas, the investigator tells the horrified Tuckers, is none other than the devil’s locksmith.