Isabella's life is boring and predictable. Through the efforts of her aunt and friend, she is engaged to Marshell Stokes, a successful lawyer. But chance intervened in Isabella's life in a strange way. Her aunt, Mrs. Moore, wanted to buy a large old house in which, according to rumors, inexplicable things were happening. Rumor tells of a ghostly room in the house that appears and disappears from time to time. The girl finds herself in this room and there experiences hitherto unknown feelings. There she meets the owner of the house, Mr. Henry Judge. He greatly worried Isabella and made her feel confused and doubt the correctness of her future marriage to Marshall. Perhaps another visit to the secret room will help her better understand her desires...

David Lindsay (1876–1945) is an English writer, author of the now famous novel “Journey to Arcturus.” Lonely, alienated, strange, unrecognized during his lifetime, David Lindsay is now regarded as one of the outstanding masters of “black fiction”. In the novel “Obsession,” Lindsay presented a mysterious interweaving of boring and worthless human life with the ghostly and cruel will of the otherworldly.