Private Showings by George Hook is a horror novel that depicts the deterioration of the personality of a character through a failure of intimacy. The character, who goes by the first name of X, the middle name of X, and the last name of X, is found at the beginning of the novel roaming the streets of Paris in search of a ghost of a woman on video, who is finally discovered in a phantasmagoric sex emporium and video theater. As the video depicting...