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A tragédia e as torres das igrejas são os traços a unir esses dois contos de Raul Pompeia. Em "A cruz da matriz", o personagem Brício vive o conflito entre as condições de sacristão e amante da natureza. Já em "A andorinha da torre", a menina Rita adorava ouvir os sinos bem cuidados pelo avô, mas o Dia de Aleluia chega com más notícias.

On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends reconvene on Twelfth Night at a great feast and share their stories of spectral encounters.

Charles Dickens once again gathers his favourite storytellers around him and 'conducts' the story of 'The Wreck of the Golden Mary'. Dickens leads, Percy Fitzgerald, Harriet Parr, Adelaide Anne Procter, and others follow....

Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.