Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Maturin
1820
ISBN/ASIN: 014044761X
Number of pages: 639
Description:
Part Faust, part Mephistopheles, Melmoth has made a satanic bargain for immortality. Now he wanders the earth, an outsider with an eerie, tortured existence, searching for someone who will take on his contract and release him to die a natural death.
Download or read it online for free here:
Read online
(online html)
Similar books
The Phantom of the Operaby Gaston Leroux - Grosset & Dunlap
Gaston Leroux's book is much darker than the familiar Broadway musical and film. A genuine Gothic murder, the Phantom of the Opera, terrorizes Paris Opera House by a blackmail plot, and murderous actions after that. Absorbing and fascinating reading.
(18091 views)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington Irving - D. Estes & company
Ghost story set in a cursed part of town called Sleepy Holow. Ichabod Crane finds himself hunted by a headless horseman who patrols the country. The book is an early American fiction story wonderfully told, which is still widely read today.
(16687 views)
The Blood That Bondsby Christopher Buecheler - iiamtrilogy.com
Not your every day vampire tale! Two is trapped: hooked on heroin, held as property, forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Time brings her ever closer to what seems an inevitable death and Two waits, longing only for the next fix ...
(10181 views)
Butcher Birdby Richard Kadrey - Night Shade Books
Spyder Lee is a happy man who owns a tattoo shop. One night a demon tries to bite his head off before he’s saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder so that he can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels, demons and monsters.
(19114 views)