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Melmoth the Wanderer

(1820)
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In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together by those who he implored to take over his pact with the devil. Influenced by 18th-century Gothic romances, this tale raised the genre to macabre pitch.


Genre: Horror

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