
THE LAST MIRACLE - By M. P. SHIEL - Author of "The Yellow Danger," "The Lord of the Sea," "The Evil that Men do," "The Yellow Wave," etc.
THE LAST MIRACLE
CHAPTER I - MY VISIT TO SWANDALE
CHAPTER II - THE WREN
CHAPTER III - THE STYRIAN
CHAPTER IV - THE RITUAL, THE STREET CORNER, THE DEATH-BED, AND THE BELLS
CHAPTER V - THE TRAIL
CHAPTER VI - THE MEETING
CHAPTER VII - THE COMPACT
CHAPTER VIII - THE FACE OF ROBINSON
A dying physician reaches out with a strange parcel: four notebooks filled with shorthand, a frantic letter, and a request to preserve a baffling secret. He tells of Miss Mary Wilson, a gaunt woman who lived alone in a remote manor and who seemed to command an uncanny power while under hypnotic trance. Through her, the doctor claims the mind can reach beyond ordinary perception, touching events far away in the present moment, a notion that both intrigues and unnerves him as he confronts his own mortal decline.
The listener is invited into a Victorian world of medical curiosity, quiet country houses, and the thin line between science and the uncanny. As the doctor’s notes unfold, the listener will sense the tension between the rational attempts to cure his illness and the mysterious, almost otherworldly insights offered by Miss Wilson’s trance. The first act sets a tone of eerie fascination, promising a story where the limits of human understanding are tested in the shadow of an impending final miracle.
Language
en
Duration
~7 hours (415K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Bergquist, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2013-01-06
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1865–1947
Best remembered for The Purple Cloud, this Montserrat-born writer helped shape early science fiction and weird fiction with lush, intense stories of catastrophe, mystery, and the uncanny. His work still stands out for its atmosphere, ambition, and strikingly individual style.
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