A portrait of the late artist Henry Darger, whose celebrated work was discovered only after his death in 1973 at age 81, "In the Realms of the Unreal" is a fascinating examination of a mysterious life and the truly bizarre art that it spawned. Darger was a Chicago janitor who lived a reclusive personal existence -- only a few photographs of him exist -- but whose artistic output was staggeringly prolific. Upon his death, his landlords found in his rundown apartment a treasure trove of material, including hundreds of paintings (some more than 10 feet long), voluminous diaries and a 15,000-page fantasy novel about a war between female slave children and their adult oppressors.

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