Dec 24, 2009
Franz Westen, a writer of weird tales, has moved to a San Francisco apartment house following the death of his wife, Daisy, and a period of alcoholism. He has begun a tentative affair with Cal, a harpsichordist living in the apartment below whose music has a supernaturally healing influence. Still grieving, Franz avoids commitment with Cal, finding solace in his “Scholar’s Mistress,” a heap of occult books and weird pulp magazines, which he lines up every night on Daisy’s side of the bed.
While in an alcoholic haze, Franz had purchased two books:...
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