The Lifted Veil: Mary Ann Evan's Experiment in Terror: A Tale of Dread and Double Consciousness

You probably know George Eliot as the author of legendary dramatic works like Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss-but did you know she also wrote sci-fi tales of gothic horror?

First published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859, this short but skin-crawling tale is very different to Eliot's literary realist works. Latimer, a poetic and much-maligned younger son of a wealthy financier, falls dangerously ill and develops precognitive and telepathic powers, corrupting the path of hi...