Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family; With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss

When a family tree sprouts in the wrong soil, the fruits of its ancestry are monstrous.

The Jermyn family has always been known for its eccentricities, particularly a persistent, unnerving physical strangeness--a quality that grows more pronounced with each generation. The current heir, Sir Arthur Jermyn, is a brilliant but sensitive young man obsessed with tracing his family's long, tangled line back to its source.

Arthur's research takes him on a dizzying journey through centuries of rumor,...