Lilith, according to the ancient Hebrew myth, was Adam’s first wife. She was created together with the First Man, fused into a single androgynous creature. The separation was done to give Adam a companion.
The female creature that came after the separation, however, mated with Satan and as a result, she and her offspring acquired demonic characteristics. Lilith is the first vampire.
George MacDonald was born in Huntly in 1824.
He studied at the University of Aberdeen and at the Independent College, Highbury. In 1850 he was appointed minister in Arundel, but soon came into conflict with members of the church council and resigned in 1853.
He held various jobs, including working as a teacher. He entered the literary field in 1855 and, until his death, consistently attracted the attention and interest of both critics and the public.
In 1868 he obtained a teaching qualification in philology. He toured the United States in 1872, giving lectures.
From 1881 to 1901 he spent a large part of his life in Bordighera, Italy. He died in 1905 in Ashtead, England.
He published more than fifty books, including poetry, novels, short stories, and children’s fantasy literature. Among the works published in this series is one of his most important texts, Lilith.
The Scottish poet and writer George MacDonald (1824-1903) approaches his own Lilith in his fictional novel through her primordial figure. She’s beautiful, seductive but also dangerous. She is the dark queen of the night.
The hero, crossing a time channel, will meet her in another dimension surrounded by monsters, ghosts, haunted forests and strange beings. Experiencing the nightmare, he will face Hell and its angels in a magnificent confrontation between Good and Evil in a monumental work by a classic writer of fantasy literature.