Some smart alecks decided to hide barrels of toxic waste in the basement of an old mansion, right next to the crypt where the bodies of the mistress of the house and her daughter Catherine rested. The filth leaked out and brought the girl back to life. For some reason, decay had spared Catherine’s body—which had been buried two years earlier—but, as befits a true zombie, she was overcome by irresistible cannibalistic urges. Helen, the living-dead girl’s childhood friend, stumbled upon her by chance and decided to act as a supplier of “food” for the starving Catherine.

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.

Boston police detective Judd Austin is investigating a series of horrific murders. An unknown maniac, clad in a helmet and black leather, decapitates all of his victims and throws their heads into a nearby body of water. During the investigation, it emerges that all the murdered women were students in Professor Millet’s evening classes—a renowned expert in anthropology. This fact, along with the method of the killings, leads the detective to suspect the professor and his assistant of committing these brutal crimes.