- Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.
- Sherlock Holmes agrees to investigate suspected murders in a village whose ancestors had killed a prominent family a century ago that they thought were vampires. These deaths appear to be linked to a descendant of that family, a man who seems to have something malevolently supernatural about him, much like a vampire itself.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
- The Reverend Merridew entreats Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to come and bring reason to his simple village. A century earlier the inhabitants killed a prominent family thought to be vampires. John Stockton, a descendant of that family, has recently returned, and the people fear supernatural retribution. When a blacksmith dies while under an intense gaze from the man, followed shortly by the death of an infant whom he merely touched the night before, Holmes heeds the call - not to solve a murder but to prevent one before unreasoning fear takes hold and the town becomes a lynch mob once again.—statmanjeff
- The vicar of a small village needs Sherlock Holmes's help. A strange man, John Stockton, has moved into the town and the villagers seem to think he has supernatural powers and may even be a vampire. Two mysterious deaths have occurred and the suspicion is that his black arts were the cause of them.—grantss
- Sherlock Holmes is recruited by the Reverend Augustus Merridew to investigate the recent death of a young child. Merridew is concerned that with rumors going about his village, violence may erupt at any time. The dead child, a mere baby, belonged to an old school mate of Dr. Watson, Rob Ferguson and his new wife, the South American born Carlotta. The problem lies with a recent arrival in the village, Mr. John Sinclair Stockton, whose family had been run out of the village over a hundred years ago. The rumor sweeping the village is that Stockton, like his ancestors, is a vampire and that it was he who caused the baby's death. Holmes and Watson travel to the village and search for a more rational explanation to a series of bizarre events that is haunting everyone.—garykmcd
- Mr Robert Ferguson (Keith Barron) lives in an English village with his 2nd wife Charlotta (Yolanda Vazquez), who is Peruvian, & has a young baby boy. Mr Ferguson has a 15 year old son Jack (Richard Dempsey) from his first wife. It is implied that Jack hates the Peruvian stepmother & her child as he would do things to irritate the baby. Jack has amorous feelings towards Mrs Ferguson's maid Dolores (Juliet Aubrey), who treats him with contempt.
The Reverend Merridew (Maurice Denham) of the village visits Mr Holmes & tells him that Mr Ferguson's young son has died. He then narrates peculiar circumstances surrounding a recent arrival in the village, a Mr. John Stocktom (Roy Marsden). Mr Stocktom has managed to anger the villagers as one of the blacksmiths died just after he had an argument with Mr Stocktom, who looked at him fiercely. Stocktom was found by the Reverent in the cemetery looking for the Sinclair family. The Reverent knew that the Sinclairs had been burned by the villagers a hundred years ago on the suspicion of being vampires. It was also proven that Mr Sinclair was a brutal man, who had even forced himself on many women in the village. Stocktom is witnessed laying a rose at the grave of Jane Burrows, the woman who was forced upon by Sinclair. On the night of the Baby's death, Mr Stocktom had been invited by Mr Ferguson for dinner (Mr Stocktom is also from Peru and Mr Ferguson wanted to make every attempt to make his life comfortable) & there Mr Stocktom had touched the baby's hand.
Mr Ferguson's stable hand, Michael (Jason Hetherington) sleeps with Dolores when she visits him in the stables. Michael is engaged to the bar keeper's daughter Vera (Maria Redmond), who suspects him of having an affair with Charlotta or Dolores. Holmes has a rude reception in the village. Mr Ferguson describes the dinner with Mr Stocktom as weird, where he talks about how ancient kings were buried with their kids, most beautiful of women (wives or concubines) & servants, in the belief that death was life.
Mrs Ferguson & her maid go with Stocktom for a ride of the countryside, which upsets Mr Ferguson. When they return, Holmes observes from the window & sees Jack smiling from ear to ear. Holmes meets Stocktom, who admits that he is teaching violin to Jack. He also admits that the villagers believe he is a descendant of Sinclair & has returned to seek revenge for their death. He takes Holmes to the Sinclair's burnt home and then mysteriously vanishes. He finds Stocktom in a deserted part of the castle, in excruciating pain & pointing to a ledge where there is a person in a hooded mask. Stocktom again vanishes in a flash of blinding light.
The next day Watson visits Charlotta, who speaks kindly of Stocktom & is angry that the village thinks of him as an evil influence in their life. Jack is nowhere to be seen the entire day. Although Holmes thinks he saw Jack at the Sinclair ruins, when he went there again. That night, Ferguson is angry at Charlotta that Jack is missing. He sees Jack returning with Stocktom & accuses Stocktom of stealing his wife & his son. Stocktom looks at Ferguson fiercely, almost a hypnotic gaze, which has a strange influence on Ferguson as he falls quiet. The same night Stocktom dies in an accident of his carriage, while going back. Jack is distraught at his death. Dolores & Michael visit the site where Stocktom was killed & Dolores is stabbed, while Michael was wandering away. Dolores survives, but stab marks on her neck look like bite marks & the village again suspects Stocktom.
Holmes & Watson enter Stocktom's premises. There they find a book on vampires and several medical concoctions. Jack exhumes the body of Stocktom and gets it thrown in the Sinclair ruins. Veera and Dolores have similar bite marks on their necks & hallucinate. Charlotta witnesses Jack administering something to Dolores & slaps him. As he runs, she sucks something out of Dolores's neck & is seen by Ferguson, who believes Charlotta is the vampire. Holmes & Watson finally deduce that it was Jack who wanted to prove himself to be a Vampire, perhaps inspired by the books he read in Stocktom's study. He used the curare poison, administered via two vampire looking fangs, to his victims, Dolores & Veera, who had severe hallucinations as a result. He exhumed Stocktom's body as he didn't want his hero to be desecrated by anyone else in the village. He returns to Sincalir ruins, where he finds Ferguson trying to drive a wooden stake thru Stocktom's body & hits him through a blow to his head. Fully believing that he is a vampire, Jack attempts to fly, only to fall to his death.
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