The unexpected disappearance of a young wife forced the protagonist to go to the police. The commissioner begins an investigation, and in the meantime, the local curate brings an allegedly repentant wife to the inconsolable husband.
From the haunted halls of the abbey in the past, a murderous rampage on Halloween in the present, to a monstrous apocalypse in the future; the seventeenth installment brings three tales of terror through every cycle.