A knight, hiding from his past, lives alone in an isolated mountain fortress. One day, he gives shelter to two pilgrims and tells them of his sorrows. But the pilgrim's true intentions are not what he thinks, and their revelations will change his past and transform his future. 'The Pilgrims' (1838) is a classic, short story by the English writer Mary Shelley, famous for her best-selling novel 'Frankenstein'.