1810 GOTHIC HORROR NOVEL. The Sicilian Pirate Sells Soul to Devil & Prophecies by a Wizard. Rare. Reformer perhaps for the first time

perhaps for the first time

Period ownership inscription on the front pastedown

and loved by God as anyone else

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1810 GOTHIC HORROR NOVEL. The Sicilian Pirate Sells Soul to Devil & Prophecies by a Wizard. Rare. Reformer perhaps for the first timeA very rare gothic "terror" novel or "horror" novel, of the kind satirized by Jane Austen. It belongs to a school of literature which spawned enduring literature, such as Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, etc., but which was largely littered with lurid tales that mashed into a chapbook format every horror and taboo with which one might induce a reader to inquire within. . . a sort of printed menagerie or "freak show." The present work is