2: The Man Who Concealed His Red Hair
3: The Opium-Eater
4: “Among Us Are Monsters”
5: The Sublimity of Murder
6: The Patron of Gravediggers
7: A Garden of Pleasures
8: The Year of Revolution
9: The Separate System
10: In the Realm of Shadows
11: The Dark Interpreter
12: The Education of an Artist
14: The Woman of Sorrows
15: An Effigy in Wax
16: A Sigh from the Depths
Postscript
Afterword: Adventures with the Opium-Eater
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by David Morrell
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