Arnold Bennett 4 hr 3 min read

A young man falls under the spell of a beautiful opera singer, Rosa, but a jealous spectre, the vengeful ghost of a dead lover, haunts all who would win her, and death seems to follow her admirers.

Arnold Bennett's 1907 novel is an atmospheric supernatural romance and thriller. Gripping, eerie, well-turned. Read it for a moody fantasy from a distinguished novelist, a curse of jealousy reaching from beyond the grave, and a young man's struggle against the ghost that guards the woman he loves.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

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