A man walks into a French town that should not exist. A curse follows a family through generations. A strange visitor arrives in the dead of night with a secret no one dares speak aloud. In this collection of uncanny tales, Elizabeth Gaskell reveals a darker side of her genius: the gothic, the inexplicable, the quietly terrifying. These are stories to be read by candlelight, where the horror creeps in not with a scream but with a whisper, and where the strangest mystery of all is the human heart itself. For lovers of M.R. James and Sheridan Le Fanu who have not yet discovered Gaskell's shadow side.
