My Darling Dreadful ThingRoos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruthstrange, corpse like, and dead for centuriesis the only good thing in Roos life, which is filled with sordid backroom sances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these sances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes