Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 56 min read

A rationalist physician collides with an immortal sorcerer, a magic wand, and the terrifying possibility that the soul is real.

This installment of Bulwer-Lytton's 1862 occult novel advances the metaphysical contest between the materialist Dr. Fenwick and the amoral immortal Margrave toward its uncanny crisis. A major Victorian work of the weird from the author of 'The Coming Race,' thick with mesmerism and dread. Read it for classic occult fiction where reason and the supernatural wrestle for a man's soul.

In its time

Published in 1862, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

56 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).