A cruel, insatiable caliph renounces God and descends through supernatural temptations toward the halls of Eblis, in a lurid Gothic fable of ambition and damnation.
Books that mention Vathek (4)
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells: “I remember that among others I tried a translation of Plato's "Republic" then, and found extraordinarily little interest in it; I was much too young for that; but "Vathek"--"Vathek" was glorious stuff.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I recollect, as all do, the story of the Hall of Eblis, in "Vathek," and how each shape, as it lifted its hand from its breast, showed its heart,--a burning coal.”
The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence: “with touches of Vathek and Lord Byron and George Macdonald”