A01=Diego Muzzio
Argentinean authors
Author_Diego Muzzio
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classic gothic
Edinburgh
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forthcoming
gothic horror
gothic novel
horror fiction
Latin American gothic
Latin American horror
lighthouse
psychiatry
psychoanalysis
remote Argentina
sanatorium
sanity and madness
Scottish gothic
war trauma
World War I
Product details
- ISBN 9781805680369
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this deliriously inventive twist on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Argentine Diego Muzzio infuses classic gothic atmosphere with disturbingly modern psychological horror.
In an old sanatorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Dr Edward Pierce develops experimental therapies to treat patients traumatised by the First World War. Late one night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on a bizarre case: David Bradley, an engineer who was sent to inspect the conditions of a lighthouse on a desolate island in southern Argentina. This once rational, disciplined man returned completely mute, his body overwhelmed by a single compulsion: to swim and swim, in any environment, to the point of total exhaustion.
As Pierce becomes fixated on Bradley's diary, a macabre record of his increasing derangement, he explores strange new treatments in which the lines between doctor and patient begin dangerously to blur.
Diego Muzzio was born in Buenos Aires and currently lives in France. An author of poetry and fiction for children and adults, he has won several literary awards, including the Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the 2023 Fundación Medifé Filba Award for The Eye of Goliath, which is his first novel.
