Italian director Antonio Margheriti's eerie tale, based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "Danse Macabre," stars Georges Riviere as Alan Foster, a journalist who questions horror writer Poe's (Silvano Tranquilli) claim that his fiction is based on true adventures. Glenn bets Foster he can't spend a night in a castle populated by restless spirits. Foster's quick to accept the challenge, but soon discovers that the dead have a way of coming back to life.