There is a big storm when the landlord's daughter Lucy Peveryl asks Davy to accompany her to the treacherous Raby Castle to see her love, Roland.

The Ruins of the Raby, as the castle is commonly referred as, are abandoned and there is a legend that some sort of demon is there and anyone who goes inside is horrified to death.

They are joined by Lord Albert Clavering, Neville, Guy, Ellen, and Maude, who had all been staying at the inn.

Lord Clavering believes he has mistakenly shot a good puritan and obeys Alan's request to place his body in the moonlight.

Stump and Jenny are introduced as lovers who reveal that Ada had died, but was brought back to life by a mysterious creature.

Alan is killed in the duel, and his body is cast into a dark abyss so the moon will never bring him back to life.

[3] The Phantom is an adaption of Le Vampire, by Pierre Carmouche, Achile de Jouffroy, and Charles Nodier, which was published in Paris in 1820.

[4] Boucicault first titled the play The Vampire: a Phantasm Related in Three Dramas, then shortened and renamed.

In the second week of the engagement at the McVicker's Theatre, a reviewer for the Chicago Daily Tribune wrote: "Only moderately successful in attendance, though the quality of the entertainment offered might reasonably be expected to call out an unusually large patronage".

That great playwright would not have died unknown had he never done anything but flap his bat-like wings in that dream-disturbing piece.