In the 1790's, English minor aristocrat, Kate, inherits the title Countess of Transylvania and travels with her sister, Frederika (Freddie), and two servants to that land where everyone is evasive as to the cause of the death of her predecessor. She discovers two former countesses, one of whom was thought to have died and a neighbouring viscount with an appetite for women, among other things. There are rumours of monsters, natural and supernatural,...