The Most Poisonous Book of All

(Dont believe p. 13 in The Big Book of Monsters! This is the real one!) Dorian Gray reads a yellow book, a novel without a plot and with only one character, and the book overpowers and corrupts him. The Picture of Dorian Gray never reveals what the book is, but from its description, its perfectly clear: Dorian is reading Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans (1884), a controversial French novel about a man named Jean des Esseintes who locks himself up on a house and spends his life...