月光洒下，鬼男爵静立于古堡门前，幽影缠绕，似在低语古老秘事。和侄女

　　A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.