George MacDonald 4 hr 44 min read

On a Highland estate, a young tutor is haunted by the second sight and the sound of a spectral galloping horse, drawn toward the family curse and the pale lady it foretells.

George MacDonald's 1864 collection leads with 'The Portent,' a haunting tale of the second sight. Atmospheric, romantic, superbly told. Read it for a moody Scottish ghost-romance from a master of the fantastic, prophecy, a phantom steed, and doomed love, founded in the marvellous yet true to the human heart.

In its time

Published in 1864, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

4 hr 44 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).