4 March 1851[1] – 16 September 1923), who wrote under the pen name Theo Douglas,[2] was a British novelist who was popular during her lifetime but who is now largely forgotten.
The two fall in love and wed but over time as seven magical amulets are removed from Iras' necklace she gradually turns back into a mummy.
It has been described as "A novel at the threshold of science fiction ... a strange blending of psychology and Egyptology, showing the completeness with which authors combined the supernatural and scientific during the 1890s.
Malevola (1914) is a tale of vampires with a psychic twist in which the curious Madame Thérèse Despard is able to absorb the beauty and lifeforce of another during a massage.
[10] Under her own name she published The Death Mask, and Other Ghosts in 1920 which was cited by H. P. Lovecraft in his Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927).