A novel by J.F. Penn
Delirium
The line between sanity and madness is thinner than you think…
A psychiatrist descended from the family that ran Bedlam for three generations is found drowned in a Tranquilizer chair at the Imperial War Museum, the asylum's original site.
Each new murder restages one of Bedlam's historical treatments, and every victim is complicit in a modern abuse of the vulnerable.
As Jamie Brooke hunts an avenger who might be the sanest person in the case, Blake Daniel is pulled into his own past, and into the hands of an agency that experiments on people like him.
The manacles of Bedlam never came off. They just moved inside.
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The research behind the book
Bedlam and the Monro dynasty
Three generations of one family ran the asylum; the last was removed for being 'wanting in humanity'.
The Tranquilizer chair
The real device behind the first murder, alongside ducking therapy, rotation, and the icepick lobotomy.
Broadmoor
Inside the real high-security hospital, and why people with mental illness are far more likely to be harmed than to harm.
MK Ultra to IARPA
The real mind-research agencies behind the novel's RAIN.
Eugenics
Buck v. Bell, 'three generations of imbeciles are enough', and the lie that genetics is destiny.
The Galdrabok
The real Icelandic spellbook of saints, demons and runes at the heart of Blake's inheritance.
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