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Marie Corelli’s 1890 novel Wormwood: A Drama of Paris is a lurid, cautionary tale of psychological decay. Set against the foggy, rain-slicked backdrop of late 19th-century bohemian France, the story follows Gaston Beauvais, a respectable young man who descends into madness, murder, and moral ruin after his fiancée's betrayal drives him to a destructive absinthe addiction. The novel is a gripping psychological thriller, using vivid hallucinations and urban dread to mirror the terrifying internal monstrous transformation of its protagonist.