finally finish 'the possessions of dr, forrest' by richard kelly, a contemporary gothic horror novel that ingeniously feels like a homage to the victorian gothic ethos, kelly creates a cast that are at once believable and easy to care about. then he creates a plot that stretches out for most of the book looking like it will be a conventional climax, and then when he has you in that womb like area of comfort he throws in the most cronenberg like tangent that completes the tale. brilliant book, i loved it, very disturbing though.