In the summer of 1816, at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron, his personal physician John Polidori, his friend Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, their infant son William, and Godwin's stepsister Claire Clairmont, gather together on holiday. After a drunken night of exchanging ghost stories, Lord Byron challenges his contemporaries to write their own. And indeed, throughout a flurry of love and betrayal, sleepless nights and near death experiences, duels and an unending storm, every person in attendance walks away with their own ghost. Some, a great story, the likes of the Vampyre and Frankenstein. Others, the untimely deaths of their loved ones, or the specter of their own end.

Lavinia Fisher haunts the streets of Charleston, after two centuries of being decried as a monster, a serial killer with no remorse. But this is far from the truth of her life: She was a black slave, freed through love, and brought to Charleston to run the Six Mile Wayfarer House, with the love of her life, John. However, when the government set their eyes on their land, a mob attacked and imprisoned them, and their home was burned to the ground. John escaped, and tried to free Lavinia, but to no avail- he returned, to die at her side. Even after someone else confessed to their supposed crimes, they were sent to the gallows. After a year and a day, they were hanged, dressed all in white.