When one of the winter caretakers of an isolated mountain inn goes missing, loneliness beings to take its toll on the other.

Creeping paranoia becomes something altogether more sinister, but is it madness or has he discovered a plot that threatens humanity.

A young man becomes involved with the mysterious, mirthless Lord Ruthven.

Intended as a short companion for Stoker's 'Dracula' we join the narrator as he begins a coach trip on the mysterious 'Walpurgis' night.

Markeim arrives at an antique dealer's on Christmas day, ostensibly to buy a present for a lady. A tale of evil and its nature.

One night, four men arrive at a notorious, reportedly haunted, house and prepare for a duel to the death.

A man explains to his doctor how he came to believe in ghosts.

While in the service of a widower with a dark past, a young tutor begins to wonder about his master's regular visits to a room nobody else is allowed to enter.

A scientific city-man encounters the legend of a terrifying monster when he retires to Derbyshire.

A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.

In this homage to Poe, two rival scholars are brought together when one discovers an important early Christian burial ground.

An apparently gentle man becomes increasingly less so as he sinks deeper into an obsession with a mysterious black cat.

A couple apparently run into some ancient forces when they make the move to the country.

Spending a night in the library of an old friend and scholar of the black arts, the narrator becomes curious about the object in question.

While on a voyage to a remote archipelago, the narrator is overcome by a premonition of evil. But the ship's captain pays no attention.