Martin Dupin, the self-satisfied mayor of Semur in Burgundy, sets down how an unnatural darkness fell on the town and an unseen multitude of the dead pressed in, until the living citizens were forced outside their own walls. His account is followed by the testimony of a visionary named Paul Lecamus, a sceptical nobleman and the women of the town, each seeing the siege differently.
One of the finest Victorian novellas of the supernatural, quiet, strange and searching rather than horrific. Download the free EPUB.