Charles Robert Maturin 3 hr 52 min read

Melmoth's fatal bargain draws toward its reckoning, as the doomed wanderer's nested tales of suffering wind at last toward their terrible conclusion.

This is Volume 4, the conclusion, of Charles Maturin's 1820 'Melmoth the Wanderer,' the towering masterpiece of Gothic fiction. Dark, brilliant, unforgettable. Read it for the shattering finale of one of the greatest Gothic novels ever written, and the fate of its damned immortal.

In its time

Published in 1820, during the 1820s, tales of mesmerism, ghosts, and the fantastic voyage flourish in the romantic imagination.

Reading it

3 hr 52 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).