The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
