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The first literary addiction memoir, featuring the autobiographical Suspiria de Profundis, the inspiration for the 2018 horror film Suspiria, starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton and directed by Luca Guadagnino In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through Londonand the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became preyunder the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Read more