Il disperso

The Library of the Teatro dei Passi Perduti hides many secrets, including a special section with works never written, but only dreamed of, and perhaps experienced, by the great authors of fantasy. When Ambrose Bierce discovers an unpublished story of his that sees him as the protagonist during the Civil War, he and Harlan are kidnapped in a vortex of imagination and terror, among cursed castles, monsters, vampires, metropolitan nightmares and terrifying ship cemeteries...