In an attempt to learn more about the pioneering traveller Conrad Vane, Sir James Monmouth sets off for the remote Kittiscar Hall where the supernatural takes hold and binds their lives together in a way he could have never imagined.
A painting of masked revelers at the Venice carnival has a secret: to stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty.