As darkness fell, four clammy fingers parted the dank earth... and a loathsome horror passes over the land. Croak. Some lonely marshland is disturbed by a freak whirlwind. Croak. A beautiful woman and her young lover are horribly butchered in her bedroom. Croak. A man is mysteriously suffocated in the open air outside his country mansion. Croak. There follows an increasing spate of weird murders and sexual outrages. Coincidence... witchcraft... or sheer insanity? Croak. And what has all this to do with toads—'the Devil's creatures'?