Fergus Hume ~7 hr read

A prophecy, a spider-and-fly seduction, and star-worship out of ancient Chaldea, a Theosophical horror-romance.

Fergus Hume's 1912 occult novel, dedicated to Theosophist Annie Besant, weaves esoteric doctrine and doom around a fated love, drawing its ancient star-cult from real Theosophical scholarship. A period piece steeped in the mystical enthusiasms of the Edwardian occult revival, from the prolific author of the century's best-selling detective novel. Read it for lush, mystical Edwardian horror at the crossroads of romance and forbidden knowledge.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).