Maturin, Charles Robert 1780-1824 creator text utu 2016 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1" by Charles Robert Maturin is a Gothic novel published in 1820. The story follows a scholar who sold his soul to the devil for 150 extra years of life, now desperately searching the world for someone to assume his cursed pact. Through nested tales within tales, the novel reveals Melmoth's encounters with various souls in distress—from asylum inmates to monastery prisoners to an innocent island castaway. Each story explores temptation, suffering, and the terrifying question of whether damnation can be transferred. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melmoth_the_Wanderer Release date is 2016-12-07 Produced by David Edwards, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified Horror tales Gothic fiction Immortalism -- Fiction Paranormal fiction PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53685 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53685 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134234.0 53685