Two ex-soldiers return from overseas–one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant–who hates…

A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.