On a train in Hungary, a couple meet a man returning after being a POW. In a freak turn of events, their hotel bus wrecks, injuring the woman near the home of the man the POW blames for his incarceration and taking his wife and daughter.
Dr. Vollin is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for Edgar Allan Poe. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher, a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident, and becomes increasingly attracted to her.
Two men escape from prison, one a mad scientist. He invents a device which is able to shrink humans to the size of dolls. The other man decides he can use the miniature people to exact vengeance on those who framed him.
