At midnight, between darkness and dawn, a huge car crowned with fire comes roaring across the sky, steered by a figure clothed in black, and wherever it passes the Fiend cries out against prayer, hope and love. Corelli’s short prose fantasy, first issued with illustrations by Arthur Severn, turns the new motor car into a symbol of modern restlessness and revolt.
A vivid curiosity from a best-selling Edwardian novelist, readable in a single sitting. Download the free EPUB.