Fergus Hume 2 hr 3 min read

'Tis ill to tamper with the unseen world, lest those who dwell there entangle all the issues of our lives, as a fugitive from justice is about to learn.

Fergus Hume's 1890 novel, by the author of 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab,' is an eerie fantasy-horror of a soul transformed. Atmospheric, Gothic, of its era. Read it for a strange Victorian psychological phantasy, the dissection of a soul, a curious transformation, and the tortures of a man who meddled with the unseen.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 3 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).