“When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.”
This novel explores themes of obsession, guilt, and the psychological impact of trauma through the narrative of a woman who becomes entangled in a series of mysterious events surrounding a spiral staircase in an old mansion. more
Karen Armstrong, born on November 14, 1944, is a renowned author and religious scholar. Her works cover a range of fields including religious history, philosophy, and ethics, and are praised for their insightful and accessible writing style as well as her respect for religious diversity. more
“It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.”
“O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?”