The Devil and Miss Prym

A decadent town frozen in time in the mountains... A young dreamer who read books by the river and longed to leave the village... An old woman permanently seated at her door, attended by the spirit of her deceased husband... A stranger with gold bars... These are the characters and the setting of a story in which the stranger, certainly the Devil, according to the old woman, proposes to the young woman, Miss Prym, to give the gold bars to the small community... but the counterpart was terrifying.