When a carnival hypnotist (Boris Karloff, bearing a striking resemblance to Dr. Caligari) arrives in a small town, the local lodge-keeper (Lionel Barrymore) is haunted by the spirit of the man he brutally murdered. Inspired by the poem by Edgar Allan Poe, this spooky silent feature has been digitally remastered from an original tinted-and-toned nitrate 35mm print, with a music score by Eric Beheim and "The William Pratt Players" (William Pratt was Karloff's real name). Also included is Rene Clair's The Crazy Ray (France, 1922, 19 mins.), a marvelous, surreal short film, in which an eccentric scientist freezes the population of Paris.