A scientist in the Egyptian desert has found the force behind matter itself, and a woman who understands it better than he does intends to decide what is done with it. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen Victoria's favourite; she wrote this in 1921, with the war just over, and the argument — that we will be given the power to destroy ourselves before we are fit for it — was not a common one then.

A young musician, ill and exhausted, is taken up by a Chaldean mystic in Paris who explains that electricity is the medium of the soul, and offers a demonstration. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen Victoria's favourite; this was her first book, in 1886, and the electric theology in it was taken perfectly seriously by a great many intelligent readers.

A woman who remembers a life five thousand years ago meets, on a yacht in the Hebrides, the man she loved then — and the book explains, at length and in earnest, the electric theology behind it. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen Victoria's favourite; this 1911 novel is the sequel to her first, and she insisted in the preface that every word of the doctrine was true.

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: H. P. Lovecraft: The Tomb The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House Bram Stoker: Dracula The Dualists Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Evil Eye Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo A ...

Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more.These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto—edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories—some of which have been forgotten over the years, like buried treasure—will thrill and chill reade...

The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween surveys the Gothic imagination from its Romantic origins to the weird fiction of the early twentieth century. Its stories range from graveyard reverie, spectral visitation, and ancestral curse to psychological terror, scientific transgression, maritime dread, and cosmic horror. Alongside familiar vampire, phantom, and doubles narratives, the volume offers unsettling excursions into decaying houses, forbidden manuscripts, and malign landscapes, making ...

DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING gathers more than a century of Gothic experimentation into a capacious archive of terror, wonder, and psychological disturbance. Its contents range from foundational castle romances, spectral ballads, and Faustian tales to detective mysteries, decadent fantasies, imperial nightmares, and proto-science-fictional horrors. Recurring images—ruined houses, forbidden manuscripts, doubles, revenants, persecuted heroines, and corrupted inheritances—demonstrate how Gothic wr...

The novel "The Sorrow of Satan" became a hit of its time. Within a couple of months of its release in 1895, tens of thousands of copies had been sold, and the book's popularity surpassed even Stoker's Dracula. Gifted but poor writer Jeffrey Tempest unexpectedly receives a huge inheritance and an influential patron — the mysterious Prince Lucio Rimanets. Money, fame, power—everything is in Jeffrey's hands. But with success comes something else: he gradually loses his talent, and most import...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Marie Corelli was a British writer during the Victorian era. Corelli was one of the most widely read authors in her lifetime and her books are considered to be part of the New Age religion. This collection includes the following:A Romance of Two Wo...

The Sorrows of Satan is an 1895 faustian novel by Marie Corelli. It is widely regarded as one of the world's first bestsellers, partly due to an upheaval in the system British libraries used to purchase their books and partly due to its popular appeal. Roundly condemned by critics for Corelli's moralistic and prosaic style it nonetheless had strong supporters in Oscar Wilde and various members of royalty. Widely ignored in literary circles, it is increasingly regarded as an influential fin...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Marie Corelli’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of ...

'Into Eternal Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition' presents a rich tapestry of haunting narratives and profound horror that delve into the human psyche and supernatural enigmas. This anthology superbly encapsulates the essence of the Gothic tradition, ranging from the grand, brooding Romanticism of the 18th century to the enigmatic complexities of the Victorian era. It features a spectrum of literary styles, from the epistolary form used ingeniously by Radcliffe to the ornate nar...