The Dark Mirror

Shelley animates the dead and asks who the real monster is. Poe locks the door and listens to a heartbeat that should not be there. Stevenson splits a man in two. Wilde watches a portrait age in place of its owner. Conrad follows a river to the end of everything civilised. Mann pursues beauty into plague. Kafka wakes you up as an insect. Barnes writes the night itself. Jackson draws a lottery you do not want to win. O'Connor finds grace at gunpoint. Rulfo fills a town with the voices of the dead. Lowry drowns. McCarthy salts the earth until nothing grows.