The Lost Stradivarius
Written in the late 19th century, 'The Lost Stradivarius' is a masterwork of supernatural fiction that unfolds through the epistolary narrative of Miss Sophia Maltravers. The story centers on her brother John's mysterious encounters with an unseen presence in his Oxford rooms, which manifests whenever a particular suite of seventeenth-century Italian music is played. What begins as unexplained acoustic phenomena evolves into a haunting exploration of love, music, and the thin veil between the living and the dead, as John becomes convinced that a spirit has been drawn to his chamber night after night.