A young artist, blinded by dreams of Italian glory, forgets the promises he made to his beloved. But Gertrude doesn’t disappear without a trace—her desperate step into the dark waters of the pond becomes the beginning of a soul-chilling story. When the ghost of the rejected bride returns, its embrace is as cold as death itself…
Leaving to earn money in faraway Italy, a young and ambitious artist quickly forgets Gertrude, his beloved back home. Meanwhile, the girl’s father intends to marry her off to a wealthy suitor. Desperate to wait for the artist and trying to avoid the hated fiancé, Gertrude, in her despair, throws herself into the pond. But her spirit returns from the other world—in hopes of trapping her beloved one last time in her icy embrace…
This collection includes eighteen mystical stories, on whose pages there is room for both classic tales of ghosts, stories of revenge from beyond the grave, and encounters with evil that takes a perfectly human form.