The Strange Visitation (Annotated)

The Strange Visitation is a compact example of Marie Corelli's gift for fusing the supernatural tale with moral and spiritual inquiry. Its "visitation" operates not merely as a Gothic disturbance but as a revelation, forcing the human world to confront hidden guilt, longing, or unbelief. Written in Corelli's characteristic heightened prose—rhetorical, emotive, and richly atmospheric—the work belon...