Allen Fenwick, a confident young physician who believes only in matter, settles in an English country town and falls in love with the dreamy Lilian Ashleigh. The arrival of Margrave, a radiant, charming young man with uncanny powers and no apparent soul, draws Fenwick into mesmerism, murder and a search for the elixir of life that tests everything he believes.
Victorian occult fiction from a master of the form, a forerunner of the supernatural thriller. Download the free EPUB.