The Casebook

A physician's clinical case notes on a woman claiming to be possessed by her dead husband's voice. As he documents her treatment with increasing doses of laudanum, unexplained handwriting begins appearing in his casebook—entries written in his own hand, yet with no memory of writing them. The more he tries to cure her delusion, the clearer it becomes: possession is not a disease. It is a contagion. And he has become infected. A story of Victorian medicine, guilt, and the terrible knowledge that spreads from healer to patient to the next healer in an endless cycle. Some truths, once learned, cannot be forgotten. Some knowledge, once acquired, transforms everyone it touches.