A Venetian Ghost Story. pAfter she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Ca Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her. Soon she begins to sense that she is being watched by isomething/i. And when Samuel begins to have hallucinations that make him violent and unpredictable, she cant deny shes in mortal danger./ppThen impoverished nobleman Nero Basilio, Samuels closest friend and the owner of the