About the book: 2022 / Théophile Gautier is the brightest figure of 19th-century fiction and the founder of French horror. A rebel who was one of the first European writers to look beyond the ordinary, forever deprived of peace... What if a young man is about to die from love for a married lady? The old doctor knows the recipe for salvation: with the help of witchcraft, he will transfer the soul and mind of the young man into the body of the husband of the beautiful countess. But won’t the Indian gods demand too high a price, to whom you will have to turn for help??