"In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London--perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers--Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper--cannot hide from...

Journalist Hallman corrects a huge omission in women’s health history in this innovative and riveting study of Anarcha, an enslaved woman who in the mid-1800s endured as many as 30 unanesthetized experimental surgeries performed by the “father of modern gynecology,” J. Marion Sims. Casting a critical eye on Sims’s statements about Anarcha, including his claim that he “cured” her of obstetric fistula, “a horrific condition that is the...

The monster of the opera: A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved. The seventh grave: A group of strangers are summoned to the ancestral castle of Sir Reginald in rural Scotland for the reading of a deceased's...