'Listen to the crone who sits at the end of the pub. He's got quite the story to tell, to anyone willing to listen to his annoying ramble. Is it true? Is it false? That, my dear friend, is purely up to the interpretation of man." Hear of the gravedigger that nearly lost his life, the innkeeper who made a wish not knowing it would be his last, the nurse who witnessed something unspeakable, and many more reports from the people of Mangryde. "They all had one factor in common. The presence of a deadly stranger, unknown and unloved, who would be the cause of their misery."