The Seventh Guest is a video game released in 1993. The plot-relevant events for The Seventh Guest begin during the Great Depression. Henry Stauf, a wandering drifter and serial thief, kills an old woman on her way home from choir practice and sinks to a new low. That same night, he sees a beautiful doll in his dreams and carves one just like it the next day; he offers the doll to a local barkeep in exchange for room and board. Seeing that his doll is in such high demand, Stauf creates more toys based on his visions, and becomes a successful entrepreneur as a toy maker.