Visitor in Lunacy by Stephen Curran

It is 1897, and confined to his room in Carfax Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr Richard Renfield is dying from injuries which could not be self-inflicted. His door has been barricaded from the inside and the Night Watcher swears nobody has been allowed in or out. With his last words he imparts a dire warning: “He is here.”Moving between London, Yorkshire and Ceylon across the 19th Century, Visitor in Lunacy re-imagines the downfall of the enigmatic inmate from Bram Stoker’s Dracula: from a feared and respected member of the government’s Lunacy Commission to a resident of one of the madhouses he once oversaw. It is a bizarre and disturbing tale of memory, regret and horror; of how the terrible secrets of a person’s childhood can inescapably shape their life.