Eight strangers are invited by a mysterious unknown host to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. The eight are wined, dined, then greeted by their host via a radio broadcast. The voice announces that before the night is over each one will be murdered unless they manage to outwit their ninth guest Death.
As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed a murder.
The tenants of an old boarding house are terrorized by an evil slumlord. One day a strange man arrives at the house and begins to help them with their problems.
A woman begins to suspect that her brother is possessed by a voodoo spirit.