Marie Corelli ~6 hr read

A mysterious potion, an electric creed, and a journey to the sun, Marie Corelli's fevered occult romance.

Corelli's sensational 1886 debut sweeps its ailing narrator from an artist's studio into a secret doctrine of electricity, spirit, and cosmic travel, guided by the enigmatic Heliobas. Wildly popular in its day, it fuses melodrama, mysticism, and proto-science fiction into something uniquely overheated. Read it for a bestselling Victorian's electric-occult vision, equal parts spiritualism and space-age dreaming.

In its time

Published in 1886, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).