When time runs backward through a haunted window, one man’s curiosity becomes a descent through history itself.

In the perfectly planned suburbs of Irvana, California, nothing should be out of place—until Trevor Langley’s dog refuses to pass one particular house.

At first, the property at 21 Rivendell looks like every other beige dream of middle-class order. Then Trevor sees himself through the window—moving backward. What begins as a curiosity quickly unravels into a terrifying discovery: the glass does not reflect, it remembers.

Each visit peels away another layer of time—decades, centuries, millennia—revealing the land’s buried past and Trevor’s own unraveling sense of reality. Suburban lawns give way to cattle plains, then oceans; ghosts of progress dissolve into primeval silence. As his obsession deepens, the professor who dismissed superstition must confront the unthinkable: that time itself may be haunting him.

Past Perfect is a sharply intelligent and deeply unsettling tale about our craving to see what lies beyond the veil of the present—an eerie meditation on history, hubris, and the cost of curiosity.

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