Terrified, Constance is convinced that supernatural evil is threatening her and her daughter. She calls upon a spiritualist to help her, but she becomes even more distraught. The author of The Egyptologist tells this tale from four points of view: wife, husband, seer, and daughter. Nothing here is as it seems. "A spectacular, ever-proliferating tale of mingled motives, psychological menace, and delicately told crises of appetite and loneliness."—The New Yorker