After weeks of the Mesmerist's sessions, Ditta ought to be cured of her affliction, and yet the Mare returns every night. She fights off sleep as long as she can, but eventually darkness descends. Terrifying creatures chase her through forests as she fights them off breathlessly. Perhaps the doctor's approach has been too subtle. When he pushes Ditta closer to her animal nature, will they fight the Mare together...or submit to its salacious whims? This short story contains tattered gowns, gothic nightmares, erotic fear and shapeshifter sex.