Millionaire playboy, Fredrick Loren, hosts a party for his fourth wife Annabelle Loren at the “House on Haunted Hill,” a house that has seen seven murders. Fredrick invites 5 guests to the party: a pilot named Lance Schroeder, a journalist named Ruth Bridges, the house’s owner named Watson Prichard, one of Mr. Loren’s employees named Nora Manning, and a psychiatrist named David Trent. Fredrick offers each person $10,000 to spend one night in the terrible haunted house, beginning at midnight.