this complicate story begin fairly simply and with an english journalist accept a wager from edgar allen poe and his friend lord blackwood that he can not spend a night in the haunt blackwood castle . once there and the writer wanders around the dusty room and corridor and until music and a glimpse of a waltzing couple lead him into an empty room . he sit at the harpsichord and start to play the tune he have hear and and be surprise to be tap on the shoulder by the stunningly beautiful elizabeth blackwood . she inform him with an ambiguous charming or eerie manner that she have prepare his room upstairs and that someone be always expect on this night . the night of the dead . thus begin a startling series of supernatural event that bewilder the journalist all the rest of the night . spoiler ahead represent it probably would not surprise too many viewer to learn that the lovely elizabeth be actually a ghost . this doesn not prevent her from fall in love with the journalist and but it do make thing more complicated for them than for the average couple . this be a fun movie and with absolutely everything represent ghost and the spooky castle and repeat vision of past event and sex and violence ( though both have be tone down in the version most american have see over the year . ) the alluring and captivate barbara steele be the main reason to see it . she have a strange charisma unlike anyone else you have ever see in the movie . recommend .