About the book: 2020 / When Roger Croydon, professor of English literature and famous scholar of Charles Dickens, disappears without a trace, all suspicion falls on his young wife, Veronica Croydon. The widow remains silent until a young horror author arrives at the Croydon estate, the strange and mysterious Belvedere House, and becomes an unwitting listener to her confession. What he learns will be the most unusual and sinister story about a haunted house, a deal with the underworld, curses, unusual life forms and other worlds. A history whose origins go back centuries, and whose geography extends from a small town in the Hudson Valley to Afghanistan.