L'Affaire Charles Dexter Ward

At the end of the eighteenth century, Joseph Curwen, fleeing Salem during the big hunts at the wizards, settled at Providence where he died a few years later. Asylum of Alienes where he has been locked up. His last visitor, Dr. Willett, a family doctor, undertakes to elucidate the disappearance of this dangerous patient. Tracking the strange research and experiences of this one, each new discovery reveals unspeakable horrors. The discovery of the grave of his ancestor has been for the young man a first step on the long way that will lead him to madness ...