Nataly von Eschstruth 20 min read

On a diplomatic mission to the court of X, a pleasure-loving young man is drawn into the carnival's masked balls, and toward the legend of the Gray Nun who is said to walk the palace halls.

Nataly von Eschstruth's 1904 story is an atmospheric fantasy-horror tale of courtly enchantment. Eerie, romantic, of its era. Read it for a moody period ghost story, where a young envoy's winter among masked balls and palace intrigue brings him face to face with a spectral nun and her secret.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

20 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).