Arthur Conan Doyle 1 hr 1 min read

In the fruitful English spring, a coldly rational scientist scoffs at mesmerism, until he falls under the will of Miss Penclosa, a crippled woman whose psychic grip on his mind he cannot break.

Arthur Conan Doyle's 1894 novella is a chilling tale of psychic domination. Gripping, atmospheric, unsettling. Read it for a taut horror story from the creator of Sherlock Holmes, a skeptic enslaved by a malignant mesmerist, and the terror of a mind no longer one's own, told with mounting dread.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 1 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).