People are disappearing in London. The nights spread fear and terror everywhere, and no one feels safe anymore. Stories are told on the streets about ghosts that abduct people.
When Sherlock Holmes tracks down a returning time traveler in the person of H.G. Wells, he suspects a connection to the murders and is thus very close to the gruesome truth.
It is the Morlocks who are terrorizing Victorian London.
The master detective confronts them.