The Empusium - A Health Resort Horror Story

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A “A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” – The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of

About the author

Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into more than fifty languages.

Product details

• Authors: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Olga Tokarczuk, Tokarczuk Olga
• Assisted by: Lloyd-Jones Antonia (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2025
• EAN: 9780593712955
• ISBN: 978-0-593-71295-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 201 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general