Description: The horror that came to a prosperous, well-fed little town took on one of the oldest forms in the world—the guise of a gypsy camp. Gypsies, eternal wanderers who entertain the crowd for a few coins, hold ancient secrets of black sorcery. And when a contented lawyer, Billy Hallet, accidentally knocks down an old woman from the camp with his car and suffers no punishment for what happened, the “gypsy baron” punishes him himself. The price is such that Billy will regret being alive a thousand times—because death would have been a mercy…