Jules Lermina 1 hr 3 min read

A magical tale of an elixir that promises eternal life, and the dark price such a gift exacts.

Jules Lermina's 1890 'The Elixir of Life' is an atmospheric French fantasy of immortality, magic, and dread. Vivid, eerie, of its fin-de-siècle era. Read it for a haunting conte magique about the oldest and most dangerous of dreams, from a master of French weird fiction.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 3 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).