E. S. Dorrance ~7 hr read

In the Court of Gehenna, apprehension pervades the throne room as courtiers and even Old Original Sin himself await the mood of Apollyon.

E. S. Dorrance's 1923 novel opens with a lurid infernal frame, its damned prime minister and Tartarean courtiers setting the scene for a moral fantasy. A period piece of 1920s allegorical melodrama. Read it for a florid, devil-haunted romance in the extravagant style of its decade.

In its time

Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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