Ninety years ago, Hugh Crain buillt the mansion Hill House in a remote area of New England. When his wife is moving to the mansion, she has an accident and dies, leaving…
Miss Giddens applies for her first job as a governess. The wealthy bachelor interviewing her is unconcerned with her lack of experience. He values his freedom to travel…
A woman is strangled in the bath by a black-gloved killer who disposes of her body in a large trunk. The trunk is delivered to St. Hilda College, an exclusive finishing…
A man escapes from a Russian prison and then from a United States embassy, taking with him some very important top secret information from both sides.
In Istanbul, the trumpet player Jimmy Logan is dazed and confused on the beach and finds his musical instrument buried in the sand. Then he sees a woman in the sea and…
A painting falls off the wall in a rented room. The tenant, Nils, a doctorate student in medicine, looks through the little hole in the wall to what happens in his…
A London museum's warehouse burns down, leaving undamaged a statue that the museum curator, Mr. Grove, identifies as "Mid-European Primitive". Grove is mysteriously…
A group of heirs gather in a castle in Scotland for the opening of the will of their wealthy relative, an eccentric doctor called Sir Reginald, who has apparently died…
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to…
Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors. Mary is a new nurse at the prestigious Vance…