A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How the prose reads.
A man awaiting surgery confronts death, consciousness, and the scale of the universe while his doctors work.
A young scholar traces his family's troubled history from a decaying English estate to a ruined city deep in the Congo.
A sculptor and a brilliant stranger use drugs to cross the boundaries of sleep until one reaches a place neither can safely revisit.
A scholar links a dead professor's papers, a global cult, and a sailor's account to the same ancient being beneath the Pacific.
A doctor and his nephew investigate a Providence house where generations of residents have weakened, gone mad, or died.
A ruthless U-boat commander loses control of his submarine and drifts toward ruins on the Atlantic floor.
A Wall Street copyist answers every request with "I would prefer not to" — and never leaves.
