Melmoth the Wanderer
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2024
Language: eng
Subjects: Horror tales; Gothic fiction; Immortalism -- Fiction; Paranormal fiction; Fiction; Horror
Description: <p>The Gothic novel of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries often feature charismatic villains and brooding Byronic heroes. Melmoth, the mysterious title character, is both of these in this, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-robert-maturin">Maturin’s</a> best-known work and one of the last of the classic Gothic novels.</p> <p><i>Melmoth the Wanderer</i> is a slow-burning supernatural story of suspense and horror that follows the menacing, ageless Wanderer through a complex web of nested stories within stories, told by his would-be victims and others who have crossed his path over his unnaturally long life. Along the way the tales take us from nineteenth-century Ireland, to utopian Indian islands, to a romantic castle in the seventeenth-century English countryside, to Spain in the days of the Inquisition, where human horrors vie with the supernatural.</p> <p>Maturin’s influence on the modern horror novel can be seen in later works like <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/bram-stoker/dracula"><i>Dracula</i></a>, another novel that follows its title character across Europe, while weaving the tales of different narrators into a portrait of a mysterious and terrifying figure.</p>