Pearl Norton Swet 25 min read

For fifty years the Medici Boots lay under glass, creamy leather threaded with silver, an amethyst on each toe, until they left the museum, and began to work their old and deadly enchantment.

Pearl Norton Swet's 1936 story is an atmospheric fantasy-horror tale of a cursed relic. Eerie, elegant, well-turned. Read it for a moody weird tale where a pair of beautiful Renaissance boots, brought from a dusty Florence shop, carry a murderous influence down the years to a new and unwary wearer.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

25 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).