The Lure of the Mask is a 1908 novel by Harold MacGrath that was the fourth-best selling book in the United States for that year.

In 1906-07, MacGrath made visits to Italy, and his impressions from those trips inspired the novel.

A young New Yorker, rich, of course, hears from his window on a night of fog and mist a woman's voice singing divinely.

At Florence the climax is reached, and it makes you fairly gasp with its intense interest.

[2]The novel was adapted for a silent film in 1915, directed by Tom Ricketts and starring Harold Lockwood and Elsie Jane Wilson.