Lois is almost completely blinded after Sidlo helps her connect to Mrs. Can't See a Damn Thing: Giscelia was blinded for some time after her encounter with Lady Midday as a child.Whitcomb's mentally disabled son Hyatt went missing, an empty coffin bearing his name was buried in the family crypt. Blind Seer: Vasek Sidlo, a blind man with the ability to extract people's memories and record them on film.Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite being a practicing Catholic who admits to believing in the supernatural, Simon has a great deal of trouble accepting Lois's theory about what's happening because he can't make sense of it.Applied Phlebotinum: A rare example of a real-life material being used this way: silver nitrate film (which really is just as unstable and prone to destructive, toxic combustion as described) appears to be a required element in the process of summoning Lady Midday into the world.He's over a hundred years old now, and unable to die even though he wants to. Whitcomb's memory, she's been keeping him alive. Age Without Youth: Ever since Sidlo drew Lady Midday's attention by extracting Mrs.Above Good and Evil: Safie describes the Yezidi Peacock Angel as 'beyond good and evil,' as those are human concepts and he's an angel.20 Minutes into the Future: Most of the book takes place in late 2014, but the epilogue takes place at least five years later.Whitcomb's films into her life, endangering herself, her husband Simon Burlingame, and their autistic son Clark. As Lois investigates, she unwittingly invites the forces that haunt Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, a reclusive spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared during a train journey in 1914, was also a filmmaker.

Experimental Film is a 2015 novel by Gemma Files.įormer film teacher, critic, and amateur historian Lois Cairns discovers evidence that Mrs.

Experimental Film by Gemma Files