<p>Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The <br/> husband is a chemical engineer| and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the <br/> attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials. When the detective and wife find a diary of the husband's ancestor from 1771| and reports of gruesome <br/> murders in the area begin to surface| they begin to suspect that some very unnatural experiments are being conducted in the old house. ba<x>sed on an H.P. Lovecraft</p>