Fascynująca antologia niezwykłych opowieści o duchach, upiorach i nawiedzonych domostwach.
Na długo przed tym, zanim Charles Dickens i Henry James spopularyzowali tradycję niesamowitych opowieści, mroczne zimowe wieczory były czasem, w którym ludzie spotykali się przy migotaniu świec i doświadczali...
London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks...
1866. In a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her community because of the birthmarks that speckle her skin, Nell’s world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea.
But when Jasper Jupiter’s Circus of Wonders arrives in the village, Nell is kidna...