The Lifted Veil (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

<p><strong>This rare venture into the supernatural by the master of realism George Eliot is a devastating psychological horror story that asks: What is the true price of seeing too clearly?</strong></p><p>Latimer is a man cursed. Afflicted by a severe illness he awakens with a terrifying and unwanted superadded consciousness. He can read the thoughts of everyone around him glimpsing their petty motivations shallow ambitions and secret malice. Every social interaction becomes a cacophony of triviality and inner cruelty.</p><p>His only sanctuary is Bertha Grant a woman of cool dazzling beauty whose mind alone remains a baffling enigma to his telepathic power. Desperate for genuine connection he falls obsessively in love and marries her convinced she holds the key to his peace.</p><p>But Latimer is also haunted by prophetic visions including a terrifying glimpse of his own future with Bertha. As he struggles against the inevitability of fate and the terror of clairvoyance he is drawn into a chilling plot of poison and scientific experimentation that threatens to strip away the final fatal barrier between the living and the dead.</p>