Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the hel of a rivate detective to find out what her husband is u to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer| and the smells from his ex eriments (and the delivery of what a ear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials. When the detective and wife find a diary of the husband's ancestor from 1771| and re orts of gruesome murders in the area begin to surface| they begin to sus ect that some very unnatural ex eriments are being conducted in the old house. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft