After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
Count Dracula kills a passenger on a train in Transylvania and assumes his identity. He travels to a small community in California where the Mayberrys are expecting their cousin from Europe. His strange behavior, sleeping all day and going out at night are surprising to young miss Rachel Mayberry. A policeman from Europe comes to investigate while Rachel's best friend Jenny dies unexpectedly. And the count plans on giving Rachel the gift of eternal life...—Mattias Thuresson
Dracula [Francis Lederer] escapes Transylvania and comes to Carlton, California. He kills and takes on the identity of Bellac Gordo, an artist from the Balkans on his way to visit relatives. Bellac moves in with 'relatives' Rachel [Norma Eberhardt], Mickey [Jimmy Baird], and Cora [Greta Grandstedt]. Cousin Bellac is an artistic recluse. He sleeps all day, does not dine with the family and removes the mirror in his bedroom. Rachel is smitten by him. Dracula's first victim is the blind Jenny Blake [Virginia Vincent]. But John Merriman [John Wengraf] -- a European police authority--is tracking down Bellac because he suspects he may be Dracula.
The night before Halloween, Bellac comes to Rachel in her sleep and puts her under his power. The next night, while everyone frolics at a Halloween party, Rachel joins Bellac in a deserted mine. Rachel's boyfriend Tim Hansen [Ray Stricklyn] shows up at the mine just in time to save Rachel. Dracula falls into a mineshaft and is impaled on a stake of wood.
