Melmoth

Perry’s Gothic novel retells Charles Maturin’s 1820 novel Melmoth the Wanderer. Helen Franklin is a British translator working in Prague. Her friend Karel shows her a letter he found at the library, which details the dark superstition of Melmoth the Witness. It’s said Melmoth was there at Christ’s resurrection but denied what she saw, thus dooming her to wander the world, forever trying to persuade other despairing souls to join her. It’s just a story—but then Karel suddenly disappears and Helen begins to think someone is watching her.