A Mystery of the Campagna
Anne Crawford von Rabe
A young composer rents a lonely villa outside Rome and falls for a woman who appears only in the vaults at night. Told by his friends after he vanishes, this 1886 tale is one of the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era.
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