Before I Sleep by Richard Cheney [fiction]
Who is the tormented Dr. Icarus Huxley, paranormal psychiatrist? Why did Alice Rhule, the intelligent, irreverent, lovely and loney mistress of a thousand-acre island estate fall in love with him? Who murdered Alice? Haunting visions surround Huxley, the prime suspect: a cloister of white marble on a hilltop in the island forest; a terrifying horned beast, both bull and man which inhabits a labyrinth of unholy creation; the spirit of Alice with new-found powers to delight, seduce and destroy. The captivating and ultimately captured spectre of Alice struggles with her fascination with Huxley and the bitterness of his apparent betrayal. The living and dead conspire to overcome Huxley's tenuous preternatural control. There will be no washing of this stain. Let the rain wash it. Let the wind blow it away. Let the earth take it to itself by its own means. And if it is never taken, never washed clean, let it be there to meet the quick and the dead at God's pleasing bar to plead for its innocence.
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