Dani Filth had this to say on his official Track by Track breakdown of the album on Facebook :

“Influenced by the stories of E.F Benson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood, the song is about a nocturnal guest who travels through an awe-inspiring storm to a great masked ball, who, in his Libertine nature, attends for merciless sport, but instead finds the woman of his dreams and both seducing the other, finds in her his immortal equal”.