Clara H. Holmes 4 hr read

Weird and occult tales from an age when departures from ordinary thought were called vagaries of a diseased brain and science itself was a thing of dread.

Clara H. Holmes's 1898 collection gathers late-Victorian stories of gnomes, ghosts, strange exchanges, and even the newfangled X-ray, all touched with the supernatural. Atmospheric, curious period fantasy. Read it for a set of eerie fin-de-siècle tales mingling old folklore with the anxieties of a scientific new age.

In its time

Published in 1898, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

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