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Dark mystery surrounds London's Barrington House, an exclusive residential building where tenants pay up to a million dollars to reside in one of the building's apartments. American Apryl has arrived in London to take possession of and liquidate the contents of one of the apartments left to her family as part of her deceased great aunt Lillian's estate. Lillian and her sister had separated when they were young and there had been no communication with Lillian for almost 50 years. For the same amount of time Apartment 16 has been unoccupied and barred from anyone entering. Night porter Seth on his rounds hears strange noises coming from the apartment and unfortunately is exposed to something malevolent when opening the mail flap to peer into the dark apartment. Soon reality will begin to bend into a macabre nightmare world for Seth both asleep and awake and he is soon stalked by a sinister young boy in a hooded coat; a boy no one else sees. And the boy begins making dark demands of Seth in connection with apartment 16. Apryl will find Lillian's apartment in a rundown condition, learning that Lillian had never gone farther from the building by more than a few blocks since her husband died many years before. She finds it curious that no artwork or mirrors are found anywhere in the apartment, although there are signs on the walls that these items had been there at one time. When Apryl finds and reads Lillian's journals telling a story of fear and entrapment her curiosity is piqued and she begins to investigate. Her investigations soon connect to an artist, Felix Hessen, who after WWII had moved into apartment 16. A loner who had been ostracized for his pro fascist beliefs before the war and his following of the dark arts of Aleister Crowley, the subject matter of his paintings of tortured grotesque figures trapped within a dark limitless void called the Vortex were lost and never found; only some of his grotesque preliminary sketches remain. Danger escalates for Apryl as she becomes obsessed to learn the fate of Felix Hessen and his connection to macabre events that occurred long ago and still may be manifesting within Barrington House and apartment 16.
Nevill has for the most part portrayed a grim London where often buildings or rooms are dark, dirty and garbage filled. Most of the characters are grotesque in some way, grimy and smelly. As Seth spirals into insanity, everything and everyone he sees is rotting, deformed and monstrous. Apryl is the exception as she is always described as beautiful and sexually desirable. An appropriate canvas on which this story of horror is painted.
Dark mystery surrounds London's Barrington House, an exclusive residential building where tenants pay up to a million dollars to reside in one of the building's apartments. American Apryl has arrived in London to take possession of and liquidate the contents of one of the apartments left to her family as part of her deceased great aunt Lillian's estate. Lillian and her sister had separated when they were young and there had been no communication with Lillian for almost 50 years. For the same amount of time Apartment 16 has been unoccupied and barred from anyone entering. Night porter Seth on his rounds hears strange noises coming from the apartment and unfortunately is exposed to something malevolent when opening the mail flap to peer into the dark apartment. Soon reality will begin to bend into a macabre nightmare world for Seth both asleep and awake and he is soon stalked by a sinister young boy in a hooded coat; a boy no one else sees. And the boy begins making dark demands of Seth in connection with apartment 16. Apryl will find Lillian's apartment in a rundown condition, learning that Lillian had never gone farther from the building by more than a few blocks since her husband died many years before. She finds it curious that no artwork or mirrors are found anywhere in the apartment, although there are signs on the walls that these items had been there at one time. When Apryl finds and reads Lillian's journals telling a story of fear and entrapment her curiosity is piqued and she begins to investigate. Her investigations soon connect to an artist, Felix Hessen, who after WWII had moved into apartment 16. A loner who had been ostracized for his pro fascist beliefs before the war and his following of the dark arts of Aleister Crowley, the subject matter of his paintings of tortured grotesque figures trapped within a dark limitless void called the Vortex were lost and never found; only some of his grotesque preliminary sketches remain. Danger escalates for Apryl as she becomes obsessed to learn the fate of Felix Hessen and his connection to macabre events that occurred long ago and still may be manifesting within Barrington House and apartment 16.
Nevill has for the most part portrayed a grim London where often buildings or rooms are dark, dirty and garbage filled. Most of the characters are grotesque in some way, grimy and smelly. As Seth spirals into insanity, everything and everyone he sees is rotting, deformed and monstrous. Apryl is the exception as she is always described as beautiful and sexually desirable. An appropriate canvas on which this story of horror is painted.