Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

by Nathan Ballingrud

She felt a curious sluggishness, a kind of separation, as though she’d become loosened from time and was jostling in its socket.

He had his professional face on, the one he showed patients whose legs he was about to hack off. It was a face that lied.

She thought she heard a voice whispering something to her. Perhaps it was her madness, emboldened by this mad place.

I had such grand ideas about how life would be. What happened to me? What happened to us?”

“To put it simply: we reach into your brain and scoop out what’s rotten. We then stitch something better into its place.”

She looked like a monster herself. Like some horrible lab experiment crawled from its jar, lurching hungrily through the dark.