Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee and his best friend. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father inoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", the Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and the Pyncheon brother returns to his home to search for a hidden vault. Starring Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey and Beverly Garland. Written by Robert E. Kent. Directed by Sidney Salkow.

This is the original wax museum movie. The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor. Starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell and Frank McHugh. From the story by Charles S. Belden. Screenplay: Don Mullaly and Carl Erickson. Directed by Michael Curtiz.

Highly regarded horror anthology movie. Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales. Starring Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave and Roland Culver. Based on stories by H.G. Wells, John Baines, E.F. Benson and Angus MacPhail. Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Charles Crichton and Basil Dearden.

The two horror legends come together once again in this movie based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Dr. Vollin is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher, a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident and becomes increasingly attracted to her. Starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware and Samuel S. Hinds. Screenplay: David Boehm. Directed by Lew Landers.