Inside Out Library · Explore

Mirrikh, or, A woman from Mars : a tale of occult adventure

Doughty, Francis Worcester, -1917., Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · 1892 · New York : Burleigh & Johnston Co., 1892. · 4 pictures

A late nineteenth-century American pulp-style occult adventure novel, Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars, published in New York in 1892 by Burleigh & Johnston and written by Francis Worcester Doughty, aimed at general readers of sensational fiction. Its black-and-white wood-engraved pictures show a dramatic chasm scene, a dim chamber with a sleeping figure, a jungle encounter with a tiger and torch-bearing man, and a sheet of strange symbols, offering a designer stark contrast, hatching texture, and eerie mystery motifs.

Fiction · Martians

Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library