Poems St. Irvyne; or, the Rosicrucian

St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance is a Gothic horror novel written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1810. The novella was a follow-up to Shelley's first prose work, Zastrozzi, published earlier in 1810. The main character is Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer, who encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality. Wolfstein is a wa...