About the book: year / XVIII century. In the British town of Mullingham, obsessed with religious and mystical superstitions, a wealthy young man falls in love with a village woman, but as if the whole world, taking up arms against this union, has prepared difficult trials for them. A tragedy occurs, mysterious events begin to occur. They say that a witch was discovered in the city, someone bitten by a wolf becomes a werewolf, spirits roam in the ruins of an old castle, and the dead rise in the cemetery.