In the StoryThe Collection
Paris, 1882. Before anyone can understand the impossible, its witnesses must be kept from disappearing. Letters, séances, unsettling accounts pass through the hands of people trying to distinguish trickery from what resists explanation. But preservation means more than stacking documents. A family wants an artifact withdrawn. A name puts someone at risk. Evidence already has a price.
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Nora Bensimon was holding just such a string between two fingers, looking like a woman entrusted with a rare insect when all she wanted was to install a computer.Read the excerpt ↗