The Return
by Walter de la Mare
330 pages~6 hrs
“Sometimes when you visit the dead, you don't come back alone.”
After a casual stroll through an ancient graveyard, Arthur Lawford awakens to find the face in the mirror is no longer his own. This chilling masterpiece of Edwardian horror explores the terrifying dissolution of identity as a man battles a centuries-old spirit for control of his very soul.
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