Fever Cabinet : JournalStone : 9781685100216 : 168510021X : 23 Sep 2022 : "a crowd-pleasing blend of historical, occult, and psychological horror" -Booklist It's the autumn of 1940 and Roland Hellmich has lost everything: his job, his friends, his home-perhaps even his mind. A German immigrant to Canada at the outbreak of World War II, Roland finds distrust and contempt at every turn. When the hallucinations that seize him with growing frequency cause a minor traffic disturbance, it's enough for a judge to commit him to the Erasmus Walpole Institution for Mental Hygiene. In the asylum, Roland befriends a sympathetic young nurse named Martha Donnelly. But even her friendship can't weigh against sadistic orderlies, dismissive doctors, and a punishing treatment called the Fever Cabinet-a coffin of wood and steel designed to induce fevers as a treatment for madness. Instead, the claustrophobic cabinet sends Roland on a voyage to a nightmarish underworld, one that seems much more than a ha