The Demon Pope eBook

Richard Garnett (1835-1906) was an English librarian, biographer, writer and poet. His literary works include numerous translations from Greek, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese; several books of verse; the book of short storiesThe Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales (1888, 16 stories; 12 stories added in the 1903 edition);  biographies of Thomas Carlyle, John Milton, William Blake, and others;The Age of Dryden (1895);Essays of an Ex-Librarian (1901); aHistory of Italian Literature;English Literature: An Illustrated Record (with Edmund Gosse); and many articles for encyclopaedias, including the ninth and tenth editions of theEncyclopædia Britannica, and theDictionary of National Biography.
From Garnett's collectionThe Twilight of the Gods we have selected for our readers the short horror storyThe Demon Pope.
The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories generally considered a classic in the genre.