A walking corpse
enters the home of solicitor James Jackson, kills his secretary, rips open the
safe and takes something from inside; when Jackson arrives, the corpse knocks
him out and departs….
Count Dracula
awakens in Highgate Cemetery and plans to feast on two graverobbers he comes
upon—but the corpse sits up in its coffin, kills the two robbers, and dissolves
into dust before Dracula can take vengeance on the one that stole his victims.
The vampire lord summons his slave the cemetery caretaker and has him bury the
two bodies then heads to town where he locates a woman contemplating suicide to
prey upon….
Inspector Chelm,
hearing from James Jackson that the killer looked like a corpse, calls Quincy Harker
to suggest Dracula may be involved; Harker doesn’t think so. Chelm then
receives a report of trouble downtown. A walking corpse has confronted a woman
in the street and stolen her locket; several men from a nearby pub come to her
defense but the corpse is surprisingly strong. Dracula spies the action and
swoops down to take vengeance upon his new enemy but the corpse hurls Dracula
through a window and escapes. The police arrive and Chelm tries to halt the
vampire for questioning but Dracula waits for no man….
In Ireland, Chen,
servant of Doctor Sun, delivers the vampire Lucas Brand to his master; he is
asked to choose his reward and Chen requests that his father be freed from
prison in China and Doctor Sun agrees….
Dracula trails the
corpse back to its grave and opens it; the corpse seizes him but one forceful
thrust causes it to crumble to dust. Dracula recognizes the name on the
tombstone: Paul Beare, an occultist he once knew. Dracula goes to Beare’s
mansion and finds Beare’s corpse with a note attached: “Do not bury him again.”
Dracula takes Beare’s body to the cemetery but is confronted by the walking
corpse; Dracula battles it and tears it apart, bone by bone. Inspector Chelm
arrives to explain matters: occultist Paul Beare died four weeks ago and by
astrology chose the place he wanted to be buried; problem: there was already
someone buried there, one Duncan Corley. Beare’s attorney James Jackson had
Corley’s body moved; Corley wanted his own grave back so he invaded Jackson’s
home, stole the locket from Beare’s widow because it contained a piece of his
own tombstone, and then went back to his grave to die in peace. Dracula scoffs
but returns Corley’s bones to his grave….