Dr Lily Dominick must try to understand the perpetrator of a terrible crime, who claims not only to have personally inspired the work of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson that established the modern idea of horror, but also to be Dominick's father. 'Genuinely terrifying' S.J. Watson A psychotic criminal patient claims he personally inspired literature's most famous monsters, and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Dominick must risk everything to find out the truth - the terrifying new thriller for fans of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes and Gillian Flynn.