In a world beyond the looking glass, where beauty conceals dark appetites and ancient legends take flesh, George MacDonald conjures Lilith, the fabled first wife of Adam: a queen of Hell whose seductive power masks a soul at war with creation itself. When Mr. Vane, a young gentleman, follows a mysterious raven through the mirror of his ancestral library, he finds himself drawn into her strange and perilous domain.

Guided by the enigmatic Raven, Vane must confront a realm where waking and dreaming intertwine, and where the boundaries between life and death dissolve. First published in 1895, this haunting romance reveals MacDonald at his most visionary, weaving mythological symbolism and spiritual allegory into one of the most extraordinary works of Victorian fantasy.