Claimed!

Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson s most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box, etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon, Vanaman and Robinson's courageous neice, Leilah, are drawn into an odyssey, a voyage toward the box s ancient, terrifying origin The greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing, Gertrude Barrows Bennett s Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy, philosophy, and terror. The most important female writer of speculative fiction that you ve probably never heard of Worlds Without End