Cornelia Van Gorder and guests spend a stormy night at her rented summer home, searching for stolen money they believe is hidden in the house, while being stalked by a masked criminal known as 'The Bat'.
Editor Edward Stevens investigates the suspicious death of his neighbor's uncle, which seems to involve witchcraft and a vanishing corpse from a sealed tomb.
Drawing master Walter Hartright becomes entangled in a sinister plot involving a mysterious woman in white, identity theft, and a sinister conspiracy led by the wicked Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde.
Cyril Paxton loses his fortune and accidentally comes into possession of stolen jewels, leading him to be pursued by both police and the real thieves.
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
In Napoleonic-era France, a young Englishman falls into a dangerous web of deception after taking a room at a sinister, haunted inn to be near a mysterious Countess.
German spy Baron Leopold von Ragastein murders Sir Everard Dominey, his English doppelgänger, in Africa and assumes his identity to infiltrate English high society before World War I.
