The Devil's Motor: A Fantasy

About this book

A motorcar tears through the modern world with a force that seems to come from Hell itself. Speed, mechanical power and human ambition combine into a dangerous apparition.

Marie Corelli turns a new machine into a dark allegory about the appetite for progress without restraint. Her story is extravagant, theatrical and unmistakably shaped by the age of the automobile. Its nightmare grows out of something people were beginning to see in the streets: a device promising freedom while threatening to make its passengers lose control.