The Serpent House

The year is 1898. Mysterious Lady Hexer of Hexer Hall takes an interest in twelve-year old servant girl Annie Coterill, and soon discovers that the child is able to travel back in time to the eleventh century when the Hall was a leper hospital, run by a strange doctor intent on using dark magic to cure his patients. Lady Hexer de,ands that Annie fetch back the doctor's book of magical curs, which is guarded by fearsome serpents that terrify her. Meanwhile, a creeping sickness engulfs Hexer Hall. Could the black magic of the past be seeping into the present?