Carl Kolchak is a newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten times from various big-city papers. Now he's reduced to reporting for a relatively small-time paper in Las Vegas. It's here he gets the story…

在教授艾伦·德里斯科尔（克里斯托弗·李饰）的推荐下，一名年轻的女学生南·巴洛（维尼西亚·史蒂文森饰）前往虚构的马萨丘斯·埃茨小镇怀特伍德，对巫术进行研究。她发现这个小镇被一个臭名昭著的女巫伊丽莎白·塞尔温/纽利斯夫人（帕特里夏·杰西尔饰）的转世所占据，她在17世纪被烧死在火刑柱上。为了保持她的不朽，每年都必须向女巫献祭处…

Carl Kolchak is a newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten times from various big-city papers. Now he's reduced to reporting for a relatively small-time paper in Las Vegas. It's here he gets the story of his life. But will the local sheriff, or the D.A., or even his own boss, let hi…