Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

A young doctor's descent into aweb of obsession and the supernatural in Edwardian London and Bruges. Carl Foster has just qualified in medicine and arrived in the city to make his fortune, but everything changes when he tends to a famous tenor injured backstage. Foster meets Rosetta Rosa, the lead soprano, and falls hopelessly in love. The tenor, Signor Alresca, takes Foster under his wing and invites him to Bruges, where something ancient and terrible seems to haunt the old man's estate. Foster notices a stranger following them, watches his mentor succumb to a strange obsession, and then witnesses an inexplicable death. What begins as a romantic pursuit becomes a Gothic nightmare of obsession, identity, and something that might be ghosts. Bennett crafts a creeping dread through the fog-shrouded streets and candlelit chambers of Bruges, asking what happens when desire tips into the supernatural, and whether the doctor can trust his own senses.