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Set between the haunted fields of rural Monmouthshire and the squalid lodgings of fin-de-siecle London The Hill of Dreams follows Lucian Taylor a solitary youth whose visions on a Roman hill open onto pagan ecstasy and metaphysical peril Machen fuses the Kunstlerroman with weird fiction deploying incantatory prose indebted to Symbolism and the Decadents to chart Lucians drift from rapture to morbid isolation Dreams erotic reverie and antiquarian ...Seguir leyendo