James Platt 2 hr 35 min read

The Seven Sigils, the Hand of Glory, the Evil Eye, the Witches' Sabbath, the Devil's Debt, six romantic tales of dark magic, opening on a bottomless lake said to be an outlet of the Pit.

James Platt's 1894 collection gathers atmospheric supernatural stories steeped in folklore and the occult. Eerie, lurid, richly Gothic. Read it for a compact Victorian book of dark wonders, hands of glory, witches' sabbaths, and infernal bargains, told with full-blooded shilling-shocker relish.

In its time

Published in 1894, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 35 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).