If your blood runs cold from the thought of specter's rising from a moss covered grave, or the bloody murder of the innocent, now is the time to leave... But if you're eager to hear more, come with me now to the strange and forbidding house that fades and reappears in the midst of the moors where it is situated. The handsome baron Mark Staunton is making a request of his former father-in-law to use a formula he has developed, the elixir of life, to resurrect his long dead wife, Melinda, from the grave.