
Detective John Verney is on the trail of a masked serial killer cutting a swathe through East London, echoing the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 and the Plague Doctors of old.

A group of young people rent an old house in a seaside town. Late at night they discover a forbidden fortune telling machine in a hidden room, which reveals and seals their horrific fates as one by one an ancient evil picks them off.