A fictional historical account of the supernatural events surrounding a remote estate in the Italian region of Tuscany. Written as a traditional Gothic short story, it tells the horrifying tale of the haunted villages ruled from this ancient estate by a being who is quickly found not to be who -or what- he really appears. The reader will be shocked and startled by the progression of these events in a 64 year reign of terror that twists and alters the fates of all involved, and leaves the countryside scarred from the horror that took place.