Publisher's Synopsis
First published in 1894, this is Machen's first, and greatest, opus of Decadence and Horror. With his singular eye for the bizarre and macabre, Machen unfurls this tale of a young girl cursed by her supernatural parentage to become a creature of shape-shifting, polysexual, demi-human of evil. A classic of fin-de-siecle erotic malevolence.