Join us for Hoboken Library’s Horror/Thriller Book Club. This month, we’ll be discussing The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling (Psychological, Slasher/Killer, & Gothic Horror).
The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling (copies on reserve on the second floor of the Main Library).
Dr. Marsh is treating a patient who claims to be experiencing impossible things—visions, time loops, bodily transformations. At first, Dr. Marsh attributes this to mental illness, but she begins experiencing similar phenomena herself. The line between doctor and patient, sane and insane, real and delusion blurs completely. As the hospital's dark history of unethical experiments comes to light, Dr. Marsh must question everything she knows about medicine, reality, and her own mind.
Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.
The conditions are simple, if grueling; she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.
Unsure of what's real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview's halls.
Please email Sean at reference@hobokenlibrary.org with any questions.
