Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was a British novelist. She emerged as a literary superstar from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I when her popularity began to fade. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, despite the fact that critics often derided her work as "the favorite of the common multitude."

Contents: An artist's studio; Mysterious potion; Three visions; A dance & a promise; Cellini s story; Hotel Mars and its owner; Zara & Prince Ivan; A symphony in the air; An electric shock; My strange departure; A miniature creation; Secrets of the sun & moon; Sociable converse; Electric creed; Death by lightning; A struggle for the mastery.