1. Lot 249

An Oxford athlete notices a strange series of events surrounding an Egyptology student who owns many ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a mummy.

2. The Croxley Master

A young Welsh medical student enters the boxing ring to fight for a cash prize that will enable him to establish his own practice.

3. The Chemistry of Love

Physiologist Ainslie Grey believes that love is merely a combination of chemical reactions and bodily processes. However, his sister's fiance reveals a past marriage to a woman who, unbeknownst to him, is now married to Grey.

4. The Lift

Tom and his girlfriend Vicky take a trip up the Eiffel Tower but their holiday takes a horrible turn when the lift stops abruptly on the way down...

5. Crabbe's Practice

Young doctor Tom Crabbe has just settled his medical practice in the small town of Bridport. Unfortunately, there are already too many doctors in town, and no patient comes to him, so he and a friend cook up a story to convince the townsfolk to see him.

6. The Willow House School

Lee Monkhouse takes a job as a tutor at a boys' school but all is not as it seems. The headmaster appears to be hiding something, while one of the other tutors, Theophilus St. James, terrorises the students...

7. The Brown Hand

Sir Dominic Crabbe invites his nephew Tom to his secluded, rural manor house for an undisclosed purpose. On arrival, Tom discovers his uncle is being haunted by a strange apparition that torments the household and has already led to the death of the maid...

9. The New Catacomb

In Rome, Lee has discovered a new catacomb, rumours of which attract his rival Hugo Danvers. Lee refuses to give up the secret unless Danvers trades one of his own.

10. Redhanded

Burglar Bates fiercely protests his innocence when accused of the murder of Lord Mannering in his stately home. When Tom refuses to help the man prepare his case, Vicky steps in.

11. The Black Doctor

Vicky's friend Frances Norton is dumbfounded when her beloved fiancée Manuel Lana calls off their engagement without notice. Shortly after, he is found dead in his surgery, and Inspector Lavender’s suspicions falls on Frances' brother Arthur.

12. The Beetle Hunter

Answering a peculiar advertisement for a doctor and entomologist, Philip is hired by the sinister Lord Linchmere to befriend his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Rossiter, a famous and reclusive beetle hunter.

13. Playing with Fire

The Crabbes are joined in Brisport by Lee and psychical researcher Harvey Deacon. Though Vicky is dismissive of spiritualism, she is discomforted when they attend a séance with frustrated local artist Oliver Mountjoy Bunn, which takes a terrifying turn.