With the help of fine folks over at GOODREADS, we’re giving away a *signed* advance reading copy of James Morrow’s THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI.

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“No one does history-meets-the-fantastic like Morrow. THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI is a great example—Impressionism versus expressionism, psychology in the asylum of ‘dreams,’ the weaponization of art, big laughs and big ideas, a wild imagination, and smooth, subtle writing.”
—Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell

THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI

by James Morrow

If you think today’s profiteers are diabolical, blink again…

It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari—sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer.

“A satirical, thought provoking, and stimulating novella.”
—New York Journal of Books

Determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will—for a price—allow governments to parade their troops past his masterpiece: a painting so mesmerizing it can incite entire regiments to rush headlong into battle.

“THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI is a fast, funny book … Brilliantly walking the line, its zippy energy camouflages a surprisingly powerful resonance. It’s yet another seriocomic triumph from one of the genre’s best satirists.”
—Christopher East

As the doctor’s outrageous scheme becomes a reality, Francis joins with his brilliant, spider-obsessed student, Ilona Wessels, and a band of lunatic saboteurs to thwart the mercenary magic.

“I was reminded time and again of some horror greats including Dracula and Frankenstein.”
—The Booklover’s Boudoir

By radically reimagining the most famous of all German Expressionist silent films, satirist James Morrow has wrought a timely tale that is by turns funny and erotic, tender and bayonet-sharp—but ultimately The Asylum of Dr. Caligari emerges as a love letter to that mysterious, indispensible thing called art.

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Cover by Elizabeth Story