This was a gripping, creepy, psychological thriller. This story is where psychology and the mystic meet. It gives an answer to the question of what exactly our childhood monsters are. The characters were well written and the written was good. The style was almost journal entry like and was easy to read. I breezed through these pages and was able to stop myself. Promising young psychiatrist, Parker, gets a job in a state mental institution and discovers something he can’t resist: a patient labeled as undiagnosable and untreatable. A patient kept isolated from other patients and staff alike and known only as Joe. This path leads him to a result he could have never dreamed of. The gripping question I needed an answer for as the reader was monster or mental health and the book did not disappoint.