Iginio Ugo Tarchetti 1 hr 52 min read

Fatal men who blight all around them, a letter that spells doom, a dead man's bone, a spirit trapped in a raspberry, dark tales of the uncanny from an Italian master.

Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 1869 collection is a landmark of Italian Gothic and fantastic fiction. Atmospheric, morbid, elegantly strange. Read it for the eerie, death-haunted tales of a great Italian Romantic, foundational to the country's tradition of the weird, in Italian.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 52 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).