After a creepy scarecrow was discovered in a corn field—the corpse of a young woman nailed to boards—residents of the town of Salem remembered the old legend of the Haymaker. A huge man with a wreath of fallen leaves on his head is gathering his harvest - the souls of beautiful girls - on the eve of the harvest festival. Mary Johnston went missing on Halloween. Her heartbroken husband asked his friend, private detective Jeremy Flynn, to help find the girl. Flynn is not superstitious, while his friend, writer Rowenna Kavanaugh, has become seriously interested in Salem's beliefs. But when several more mutilated bodies were found, the figure of the Haymaker began to take on reality. His last victim should be the harvest queen herself, whose role this year is played by Rowenna...