A chilling and mystifying study in mounting terror in which a small group of psychically receptive people are brought together in Hill House, a brooding, mid-Victorian mansion known as a place of evil and contained ill will. Led by the learned Dr Montague, who is conducting research into supernatural phenomena, the visitors have come to find out the secrets of the old house and draw forth the mysterious powers which it allegedly possesses - powers which have brought madness and death to those who have lived there in the past...