The Parasite: A Story
A woman’s battle against an unseen mind that drains love, freedom, and reason.
About this book
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Parasite: A Story is a taut Victorian psychological thriller that probes the unsettling possibilities of mind-to-mind influence. A narrator drawn into experiments at the fringes of science becomes witness to a subtle, creeping power that overturns ordinary assumptions about free will, identity and responsibility; Doyle's clinical prose and atmospheric detail turn everyday parlors and drawing rooms into arenas of moral and metaphysical suspense. Equal parts ghost story, medical case study, and ethical fable, The Parasite asks whether the mind can be invaded — and what price is paid when curiosity unlocks forces it barely understands.