Malcolm Jamieson

Two American girls in Italy are drugged and assaulted by an evil magician and his twin who suffer from a curse that turns them into werewolves.

The tumbrels roll through the streets of Paris, carrying enemies of the new French Republic to their appointments with "Madame Guillotine." But to the revolutionaries' fury, more than a few of France's hated aristocrats have escaped execution thanks to the actions of a dashing young Englishman known as the Scarlet Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews, Brideshead Revisited).