A village somewhere in Bohemia in the 19th century: Seven citizens are found mutilated within a very short space of time. The notables are at a loss. Is it something to do with the mysterious stranger who recently came to the village? Is he a messenger of the devil? In any case, he doesn't seem to have come alone: Eerie apparitions scare the inhabitants, and a werewolf is supposedly up to mischief in the woods. All just a figment of the imagination? Not at all! Because the stranger is gathering his emissaries around him to raise the dead. It's time for his revenge.