When Governor Lampley makes an unplanned stopover in a small, dying town, he finds himself checking into a mysterious hotel where reality and illusion intertwine. As he descends through the hotel's subterranean floors, he encounters pianos that play themselves, mythical creatures, and shifting passages that lead him on a disorienting, Kafkaesque journey deep into his own psyche. What will he find in the haunted depths?

Ward Moore's 1960 novel explores perception, identity, and the elusive nature of truth and meaning in a tense, dreamlike allegory.