The Book Collector by Alice Thompson
Requirements: EPUB reader, 336KB
Overview: The novel is a Gothic story of an Edwardian woman, Violet, who marries a book collector. She becomes obsessed by a book of fairy tales that her husband acquires; she develops delusions about harming her baby and is put in an asylum by her husband.
After some time, she leaves the asylum and corpses of women are discovered in the surroundings of the village. Their skin has been removed and they are mutilated in ways that are suggestive of certain fairy tales. The husband employs a nanny; Violet suspects they have embarked on an affair. Violet starts seeing dead bodies and becomes convinced her husband is the murderer. He finally puts her back in the asylum, where she is given ECT.
On Violet’s eventual release she decides to search for the provenance of the book of fairy tales, which leads her to a taxidermist who tells her that her husband has books bound in human skin. Violet discovers the murdered women have all been abducted from the asylum. The novel ends with the burning of the husband’s books.
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
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