Black Magic (Annotated)

Black Magic is Marjorie Bowen's luxuriant Gothic meditation on ambition, heresy, and spiritual corruption, set amid a vividly imagined late-medieval Europe of courts, cloisters, plague-shadowed streets, and occult rumor. Blending historical romance with supernatural terror, the novel follows figures drawn toward diabolic power and the dream of overturning Christian order. Its prose is ornate, atmo...