The Medusa Frequency: Russell Hoban

It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer`s block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head, Vermeer`s girl with a pearl earring, his lost love Luise and, beneath it all, the Kraken awaiting. As Herman will discover, creating art is a tough business.