The segments that make up the episode are "The Devil and Homer Simpson", "Terror at Five and a Half Feet" and "Bart Simpson's Dracula". The first segment is based on the 1937 short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Steven Vincent Benet. The second is based on the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", also adapted as a segment in the 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie. The third segment parodies elements from the 1992 movie version of Dracula and the 1987 vampire movie, The Lost Boys. The framing device pays homage to Rod Serling's early 1970s TV series Night Gallery.