William Le Queux 4 hr 54 min read

In this, the most enlightened age the world has known, the author insists, an extraordinary and secret phase of modern London life takes place, one that will startle most readers.

William Le Queux's 1899 novel is a lurid fantasy-horror thriller of occult evil in the metropolis. Sensational, atmospheric, of its era. Read it for a full-blooded late-Victorian shocker where the hidden practice of black magic in fashionable London binds an unwary man to something dark and inescapable.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

4 hr 54 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).