An inveterate traveller, Sir James Monmouth has spent most of his life abroad He arrives in England on a dark and rainy night, with the intention of discovering more, not only about himself but of his obsession with Conrad Van, an explorer Warned against following this trail, Sir James experiences some extraordinary happenings who is the mysterious, sad little boy and the old woman behind the curtain? Only he hears the chilling scream and the desperate sobbing