When a stranger arrives in the small English town of Iping, the owners of a local inn bless their good fortune at having a customer in the off-season—even if he appears to be a bit odd. With his head covered in bandages and his hands constantly gloved, the inn’s mistress assumes this stranger has some kind of terrible disfigurement. The truth, however, is even more shocking.

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