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Eric’s final relenting is a powerful moment.

The persons narrative becomes a mixture of his actual attempts to escape the torture chamber and the illusion that he suffered as he begins to see himself literally in a tropical forest.and later desert.

The heated walls in the torture chamber remind me of the final stage of the pit and the pendulum by Poe where after escaping the hideous pit and sharp pendulum the prisoner almost roasted in heated walls

H. H. Holmes’ Hotel, The Murder Castle Of 1890s Chicago

With the help of the Persian, who seems to me a strange addition. He is from the East, and is exotic. He knows Eric’s evil past, his love of torture and his magician, illusionist’s skills. His house of horrors have their companion in real life.

The Gothic element call back to the folk tale of “Beauty And the Beast.” Christine escapes from the label of fickle because of the aesthetic element of art in music.

Like “the hound of the Baskervilles“ this novel mixes the suggestion of the supernatural with a crime narrative. Even with the humanist of Eric being revealed, he is still extraordinary in his abilities.

The gothic elements of snowy visits a graveyard following a beautiful Haden. An the facing of the death head with a cloak