Claimed!

Claimed!, published in 1920, is Francis Stevens's novel of supernatural horror. When a strange green casket is salvaged from the ocean, it begins to exert a possessive force over those who come near it, calling them toward the sea and the drowned civilisation that created it. Stevens builds an atmosphere of creeping dread as rational characters find themselves unable to resist the box's pull. The novel exemplifies her distinctive blend of weird fiction and adventure, and her ability to invest fantastic premises with genuine psychological weight — qualities that made her one of the most original voices in early American speculative fiction.