author
Charles Robert Maturin
1780–1824
A Dublin clergyman with a gift for the eerie and dramatic, he became one of the last great voices of classic Gothic fiction. His dark imagination lives on above all in Melmoth the Wanderer, a novel that haunted later writers from Balzac to Oscar Wilde.
4 Audiobooks
Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1
by Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3
by Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4
by Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 2
by Charles Robert Maturin
About the author
Born in Dublin in 1780, Charles Robert Maturin studied at Trinity College and was ordained in the Church of Ireland. Alongside his clerical work, he wrote novels and plays, sometimes publishing early fiction under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy.
Maturin is best remembered for his Gothic writing: tales full of intensity, moral danger, and supernatural unease. His most famous book, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), is widely regarded as a landmark of late Gothic fiction and remains the work most closely associated with his name.
His career was marked by financial strain as well as literary ambition, and he died in Dublin in 1824. Even so, his reputation endured, especially among readers drawn to dark, theatrical storytelling and the strange borderland between religion, guilt, and horror.