The Man in the Picture
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 1590200918 / Publisher: Overlook Hardcover, September 2008
Oliver's former college tutor, Theo Parmitter, reveals to him the eerie secret of a mysterious painting that has the power to demonically possess the minds of people who stare at it.
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An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master. In the apartment of Oliver's old professor at Cambridge, there is a painting on the wall, a mysterious depiction of masked revelers at the Venice carnival. On this cold winter's night, the old professor has decided to reveal the painting's eerie secret. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty.
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