Teratologens återkomst

Nikanor Teratologen's first book to be translated into English situates itself in an insidious series of frames in the fantastic tradition pioneered by such gothic novelists as Mary Shelley, opening with a translator's note, a preface by the author-wherein he claims the text that follows was found and entrusted to him by "a dear friend with exquisitely cruel tastes"-, and a foreword by that same friend who promptly proclaims, "Last summer I murdered an eleven-year-old boy" by the name of Helge. The bulk of the book is supposedly the murdered boy's manuscripts, titled "Assisted Living", wherein he writes of his late pederast grandpa, Holger Holmlund, the outcast devil of the Swedish town of Skellefteå.