BizenghastVol. 1

In volume one of "Bizenghast", we meet Dinah, a pretty but disturbed girl who has just lost her parents in an automobile accident.

She has been sent to a small town, Bizenghast, to live with an aunt.

She is slowly slipping from an undiagnosed case of mental illness.

The house is haunted, but only Dinah is aware of this, which only feeds the doctor's and her aunt's suspicions about Dinah's well being.

The house, was a mental hospital, then a school for bad boys.

The haunts and histories know Dinah can see them, and won't leave her alone.

A recluse, she sneaks out with her only friend, Vincent, and together they discover the lost graveyard.

There, a mausoluem is somewhat sunken, beautiful, and irresistible to the teens.

They go inside, and Dinah reads from a stone engraving.

This act binds her to a contract, as is explained by "the Hooded Angel." The Hooded Angel is the protector of the Mausoleum.

Dinah is bound to release spirits stuck somewhere between life and a peaceful afterlife.

If she refuses, she will face an eternity of hell.So, Dinah begins her quest of "cleaning" the vaults, crypts and graves of lost souls, all the while struggling with the haunts at "home", and her growing mental illness.