Melmoth the Wanderer

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Written by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth the Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor desperately seeking a victim to release him from his fatal bargain with the devil, was regarded by Balzac as one of the great outcasts of modern literature.

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Updated 09/07/2010

Category: Horror

Release date: 1820

Charles Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (1782–1824) was an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels.