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Tagged: Body reversal

An ornate antique mirror on a rosewood console reveals an impossible succession of dim rooms, with whorls converging near one corner.
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The Trap

The Trap turns an antique mirror into a prison whose inhabitants retain their bodies and consciousness while ordinary aging is suspended. When fifteen-year-old Robert Grandison disappears from a Connecticut school, his tutor Canevin learns to communicate with him in dreams and attempts a physical intervention from outside. The collaboration with Henry S. Whitehead combines an occult artifact, a carefully elaborated imaginary geometry and a rescue that leaves permanent bodily evidence.

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