Printer's Devil Court
Subtitle: A Ghost Story
By: Susan Hill
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781781253656; 9781782831143
Subjects: Medical students; Fiction; Ghost stories
Description: One murky November evening after a satisfying meal in their Fleet Street lodgings, a conversation between four medical students takes a curious turn and Hugh is initiated into a dark secret. In the cellar of their narrow lodgings in Printer's Devil Court and a little used mortuary in a subterranean annex of the hospital, they have begun to interfere with death itself, in shadowy experiments beyond the realms of medical ethics. They call on Hugh to witness an event both extraordinary and terrifying. Years later, Hugh has occasion to return to his student digs and the familiar surroundings resurrect peculiar and unpleasant memories of these unnatural events, the true horror of which only slowly becomes apparent.