The isle of lies

There are islands which exist not merely upon the map, but upon the trembling frontier between knowledge and illusion—where truth itself seems a negotiable substance, and certainty dissolves like mist before the rising sun. The Isle of Lies is such a place: a lonely and enigmatic outpost set amid indifferent seas, where men arrive bearing their ambitions, their fears, and, most perilously, their secrets.

M. P. Shiel, with his singular gift for fusing metaphysical dread and psychological pene...