Fleeing his creditors by night from Paris, Pierre de la Motte has a girl thrust into his care by strangers. With his wife and the girl, Adeline, he takes refuge in a ruined abbey deep in a forest, where secret chambers, an old manuscript and a powerful marquis begin to threaten them all.
Radcliffe’s Gothic novel of 1791, a model for the suspense and eerie settings that later Gothic writers borrowed. Download the free EPUB.