Writer
Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they were put there after killing their parents. Ellen, who now lives in the house of an old widow, Mrs. Armstrong, takes them in. But if their secret gets out, it could jeopardize Ellen's plans to wed Mrs. Armstrong's stepson. She struggles with anxiety -- until Mrs. Armstrong suddenly turns up dead.
Screenplay
Marianne Danielle está viajando pelo Leste Europeu a fim de assumir o cargo de professora de francês em uma escola para moças na Transilvânia, agora livre da ameaça do Conde Drácula. Ela não é muito bem recebida pelos locais e acaba sendo acomodada no castelo da Baronesa Meinster, onde conhece o filho da nobre, que vive acorrentado à parede. Com pena do jovem, Marianne decide libertá-lo sem desconfiar que ele é um vampiro. Para sorte dela, o Doutor Van Helsing está por perto e promete por fim à vida de mais esse ser das trevas.
Screenplay
The mysterious Mrs. Smith is entertaining - and one of her guests seems to know her from long before.
Theatre Play
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.
Story
A shrewd ex-prisoner runs a successful antique shop -- until his assistant discovers the collectibles are stolen goods and begins blackmailing him.
Additional Dialogue
In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
Theatre Play
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
Other
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
