When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of 'The End of Mr Y' in a bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian sc... » 

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of 'The End of Mr Y' in a bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorious, and rarest, book. It is also believed to hold a curse. Anyone who's ever read it, including Lumas, has disappeared without trace. «