A terminally-ill man meets a mysterious woman on the ski slopes of the French Alps, where she rescues him in impossible circumstances. After waking in a military hospital, an accident victim no longer needs food and is forbidden to look into a mirror. What is the meaning of the ghostly parade in the seventeenth-century manor Gryphon's Court? A plague of vampires descends on a quiet country village. A children's entertainer tells a private enquiry agent an incredible story.