Wakenhyrst

Thoroughly unsettling. I desperately wanted the father to get a comeuppance and wasn't disappointed. He was reprehensible; a narcissistic, misogynistic toad. I had never heard of a Doom painting and found the Medieval history woven in the story to be fascinating. Ironically, the father is a Medieval villain in his thoughts and treatment of others. He's a sort of one man judgemental inquisition who sees himself above others, particularly females. He judges others as hell bound while justifying his own sins as necessary. He even reasons that his visits to prostitutes and bedding maids in his household are medicinal. He justifies his evil by draping himself in fake piety, researching a Saint who, because she is female, he refers to as "creature". He implies he can do as he pleases because he's male. The reader is given access to his dreadful thoughts, so by the time karma catches up to him, it's delicious.