The Dark Chamber

About this book

Richard Pride wants to remember everything he has ever experienced. Music, scent and carefully staged experiments begin to recover lost impressions, but his search soon passes beyond his own life into memories that seem older than humanity.

Leonard Cline places this disturbing experiment inside an isolated household, where the consequences spread to everyone around Pride. The novel draws on hypnosis, psychology and the possibility of inherited memory, building towards a grotesque reversal of human development. H. P. Lovecraft admired its weird atmosphere. The horror comes from the idea that remembering too much could destroy the person who remembers.