Captain Kronos, his hunchbacked assistant Professor Hieronymous Grost and the beautiful Carla arrive in the village of Durward. Several village girls have been found dead, their bodies withered to old age. Kronos believes that a vampire is draining the girls of their life, and lays a trap of dead toads wich will come to life in the presence of a vampire.

He is set upon by hired assasins, but fells them with a skilful display of swordsmanship. Meanwhile, the village doctor, Marcus, travels to the home of Paul and Sara Durward, whose aged mother is bedridden. He is later discovered to have been infected by a vampire. Kronos attempts to put Marcus out of his misery, but the doctor is eventually killed by the cross around his neck. Kronos raids a local graveyard for holy relics to use as protection, but is set upon by a gang of villagers, angry at Marcus's death.

Finaly, using Carla as bait, he goes to the Durward estate where he discovers that Lady Durward is in fact a young and beatiful woman - and a vampire. She has used her powers to resurrect her husband, who died of the plague, and Kronos is forced to face him in a swordfight. Kronos wins, and destroys Lady Durward before setting off to fight other vampires, leaving Carla behind.

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