Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.