Successful thriller novelist Adrienne Delaney (Victoria Morsell) and her photographer partner Don Gordon (David Homb) along with her pet cat Spaz have just acquired a distant mansion off the coast of a smaller New England island beforehand owned by a famed 19th-century magician, Zoltan "Carno" Carnovasch (Robert Miano), whose five wives all died mysteriously. Spaz also goes lacking. Adrienne visits the almost 110-calendar year-aged Malcolm Wyrmshadow (Douglas Seale), who is staying cared for by Ethel (Lilyan Chauvin) Malcolm had been Carno's apprentice as a youthful boy. While the neighborhood townspeople believe all Carno's wives died of all-natural triggers or unintentionally, Adrienne learns via a series of visions that he murdered them in grotesque ways. Phantasmagoria was a radically unique sport for Williams, who was finest regarded for coming up with the relatives-friendly King's Quest fantasy experience activity collection. Although Phantasmagoria was her first horror match, Williams had developed murder and crime stories in her before mystery online games, Mystery House and the Laura Bow sequence.
