The devil aspect: the strange truth behind the occurrences at Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane

✍ Scribed by Craig Russell

• Book ID: 100233227
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 267 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0385544375

✦ Synopsis

**"A blood-pumping, nerve-shredding thriller --elegant, edgy, ingenious. Craig Russell conjures not one but two unforgettable settings: Prague between the wars, pulsing with menace, and a Gothic mental asylum, as exciting a house of horrors as I've ever visited. You'll enter both with dread. You'll dwell in them with relish."
**-- A. J. Finn, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of The Woman in the Window
Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosarek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The state-of-the-art facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle outside of Prague, though the site is infamous for concealing dark secrets going back many generations. The asylum houses the country's six most treacherous killers--known to the staff as The Woodcutter, The Clown, The Glass Collector, The Vegetarian, The Sciomancer, and The Demon--and...