This classic Gothic-horror novella follows the perspective of Laura, a young girl who becomes drawn to a beautiful stranger despite her feelings of repulsion and dread. A stranger who's past is so engulfed in darkness and mystery that a shadow of unknown horror seems to linger in the background. Upon her arrival to a small rural Styrian town, the inhabitants find themselves afflicted with strange sickness and mysterious death. A sickness that this stranger is also plagued with. As Laura befriends her, a conflict of feelings and fear overwhelm the senses as she loses herself in the struggle...