Name/Title
A Strange Story AND ZanoniEntry/Object ID
2022.165.12Description
This story is told from the perspective of Dr. Allan Fenwicke, a rational materialist if there ever was one. He publically debunks the spiritualist beliefs of his fellow physician Dr. Lloyd, and thereby hastens his colleague's demise. Soon after, the Mysterious enters Dr. Fenwicke's logical life in the form of the lovely and dreamy Lillian and the wickedly amoral Mr. Margrave. -Goodreads
Zanoni is a deeply engaging and well-written occult allegory/romantic tale that touches on love, immortality, magic, the nature of the real, the French revolution, Italian opera and one of the scariest figures in Western literature--one so legitimately creepy she was adopted wholesale by the Theosophists and later adapted by Japanese filmmakers for The Grudge. -GoodreadsCreate Date
June 11, 2022
