Graves

In Graves Damien a male nurse and self-styled thanatophile is in love with death in its purer and more ideal form. However as he casts around for some authentic way to defy the void of modernity his thanatophilia is swiftly and insidiously corrupted. Scavenging what materials he can he works in isolation like a reverse Doctor Frankenstein wishing to understand the secrets of death not life in order to break the narrative power of science over the modern mind.Set against the backdrop of anomie-drenched 21st-century London Graves Quentin S. Crisps second major novel is a work of Gothic horror that confronts the hard problem of consciousness in a world where it is easier to believe in artificial intelligence than human intelligence.