Charles Maturin wrote Gothic fiction best known for Melmoth the Wanderer, a complex novel built from stories within stories. Its title character has made a supernatural bargain for extended life and travels through different countries and generations looking for someone willing to take his place. The novel moves through monasteries, prisons, families and religious persecution, repeatedly pausing one narrative to open another. Earlier works include The Milesian Chief and other Gothic or historical novels, but Melmoth is the central reason Maturin remains read. His style is dark, digressive and theatrical, fitting Gothic classics, Faustian fiction and early nineteenth-century supernatural literature. Read more Less
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