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Medusa: A Novel of Mystery, Ecstacy, and Strange Horror by E. H. Visak

Paperback – British Library – May 2026 – 223 pages

Somewhere around the early eighteenth century, young Will Harvell joins a sea voyage in search of a mariner’s missing son which gradually finds itself drawn towards an ancient and indescribable terror of the ocean in E. H. Visiak’s classic novel, which returns to print featuring a new introduction by horror expert Aaron Worth.

Combining elements of Conradian sea adventure with Atlantean mythology and a uniquely unsettling brand of metaphysical, sublime horror–all delivered in Visiak’s high literary style–Medusa remains a distinctive, influential and still exciting work in the history of early twentieth-century weird writing.