The "Sulphurous Gothic" by Leo Perutz

Talented and tormented outsider who is rightly celebrated today as one of the most refined masters of the gothic genre, Leo Perutz, to escape the distressing bottlenecks of reality, turns his gaze to the vast field of memories of Antiquity and weaves a very personal dialogue with the shadows of the greats of the past, the only ones capable of alleviating his exacerbated solipsism.