F. Marion Crawford ~8 hr read

In the shadowed Gothic churches and streets of old Prague, a beautiful, uncanny woman wields hypnotic powers over the men drawn into her strange and obsessive schemes.

F. Marion Crawford's 1891 novel is an atmospheric occult fantasy and horror tale. Lush, brooding, richly imagined. Read it for a moody, sumptuous supernatural romance set in a hauntingly rendered Prague, where mesmerism, obsession, and dark science entwine, from a popular master of the Victorian weird and the ghostly.

In its time

Published in 1891, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~8 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).