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A strange and gruesome gothic fantasy set in a run down 7 story apartment building. The 1st floor resident with a passion for taxidermy that gets a sinister comission, the patient and friendly Dr on the 6th floor who is hiding a terrible secret, the mysterious young couple on the 5th floor with all the locks on their door....
Each chapter is a seperate but interlinked story so the characters and vocab reoccur and the book is long enough at 460 pages to get nice and lost in.
The fictional setting, society and character names seem to be based on a mix of 1800s England and France which I found really strange at first, especially since I wasn't expecting it.
Fans of The Night Circus, Something Wicked This Way Comes or The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde might like this. If you're looking for a tightly wound plot however, this one isn't for you.