A child witnesses an intruder steal the corpse of one of her recently deceased relatives. Terrified, she flees from the cabin where she is hiding, and encounters Baron Victor Frankenstein
As the body snatcher takes the corpse to Frankenstein's secret laboratory, a local priest discovers the theft. The child identifies both the body snatcher and his employer
Forced to leave town and flee, Frankenstein and his assistant Hans return to the Baron's hometown of Karlstaad, where they plan to sell valuables from the abandoned Frankenstein chateau to fund new work