Series
Doctor Nikola
Guy Boothby · 5 novels · 1895–1901
Doctor Nikola is Guy Boothby's Victorian-era series about Dr. Nikola, an occultist criminal mastermind often read as a forerunner to later master-villain characters like Fu Manchu. Beginning with A Bid for Fortune (1895) and continuing across further novels to 'Farewell, Nikola' (1901), it follows Nikola's escalating schemes and the people drawn into opposing or serving him across the British Empire and beyond. The books can be read as one loosely continuous arc following Nikola's rise.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Doctor Nikola at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1890s4
- 1900s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 60% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Dr. Nikola's Experimentdarkest · calmest
- Doctor Nikolabrightest
- 'Farewell, Nikola'most intense