George Sand 24 min read

On a stormy evening under the vine-arbor, the melancholy Beppa broods and lets her fingers wander the strings of her guitar, as a tale of the dreaded Orco, a Venetian phantom, begins.

George Sand's 1869 story ('The Orco') is an atmospheric supernatural tale of a lagoon-haunting spirit, from the great French novelist. Moody, evocative, romantic. Read it for an eerie Venetian ghost story steeped in storm, music, and dread, from a master of French Romantic fiction.

In its time

Published in 1869, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

24 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).