The legend of the Black Flame Candle says that if the candle is lit by a virgin on Halloween night under a full moon, it will raise the spirits of the dead for as long as the flame burns.

Yorkshire in the 1880's: Joe Skinner marries Lily Whitmore, the woman he has long admired, to give a name to her illegitimate child by Lionel Fillmore, the opportunistic son of an impoverished ...