Sire de Maletroit's Door (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

A desperate flight from danger leads a young cavalier to a trap from which there is only one escape: a forced marriage.Set in the tumultuous world of 15th-century France, this gripping short story by Robert Louis Stevenson follows the proud young soldier, Denis de Beaulieu. Fleeing a patrol of enemy troops on a dark night, Denis desperately seeks refuge and finds an open door into a grand, mysteri...