Empusion – Tokarczuková Olga (2023)

A nature-healing horror ***** September 1913, the Görbersdorf spa. Mieczysław Wojnicz, a student from Lviv, arrives at this mountain sanatorium in hopes that innovative methods and crystal-clear air will halt the progression of his illness or even cure it completely. However, the diagnosis leaves no room for illusions — his lungs have been attacked by deadly Koch bacilli. Tuberculosis. ***** At the gentlemen's boarding house where he is staying, he gradually gets to know the other patients. Sick men from Vienna, Königsberg, Breslau, and Berlin tirelessly discuss over a glass of Schwärmerei the most important world issues. Is Europe on the brink of war? Monarchy or democracy? Do demons exist? Can one tell if a text was written by a man or a woman? ***** However, these questions are not the only ones occupying the minds of the boarding house residents. Terrifying tales of events that took place in the mountains surrounding the sanatorium reach Wojnicz. And although he is busy hiding the truth about himself, these mysterious and horrifying stories increasingly fascinate him. Little does he know that dark forces have already set their sights on him.