In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry DargerHenry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in Illinois's asylum for feeble minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his imaginary life was exciting, colorful and sexually provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady discovered in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000 page illustrated novel (The Realms of the Unreal), which told the epic