Goodreads asked Alan M. Clark:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Alan M. Clark My relationship with a series of vivid temporal lobe seizure hallucinations brought on by brain abscesses I suffered in 1989. The hallucinations involved a malevolent presence, a man whose thoughts I could penetrate to some extent. At times, I felt as if I were losing my identity and assuming his. I began to remember doing things in places I've never been. When later, I began researching and writing my Jack the Ripper Victims series, I immediately felt an affinity for and connection to the environment of Victorian London. I wrote the novel THE SURGEON'S MATE: A DISMEMOIR to explore the memoir and horror fiction possibilities of the experience.

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