The Empusium Classics Chris Whitaker has written a

Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope

and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline

initiated by the animals

sculptor and filmmaker

five years later

The Empusium Classics Chris Whitaker has written aSeptember 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Grbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the