Outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard, five couriers of different nations sit smoking at sunset and trade stories of the supernatural. A Genoese tells of an English bride haunted by a dark face in a grim Italian palazzo, and a German tells of a twin who saw his brother’s apparition at the hour of his death.
A short, atmospheric ghost piece from 1852, best read as the title instructs. Download the free EPUB.