Melmoth (comics) from "The Collected Letters of Oscar Wilde" that Sim used as the basis for the Wilde portions of the story, showing the changes he made to make them fit into the fictional world of Estarcion, plus annotations. Melmoth (comics) Melmoth is the fifth novel in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's "Cerebus" comic book series. It follows Oscar (a caricature of Oscar Wilde) in his last days leading up until his death, while Cerebus sits catatonic, clutching the doll of Jaka, the woman he loves but believes has been killed. The novel was collected as the sixth paperback "phonebook" collection in the
Melmoth the Wanderer Raleigh, in his book "The English Novel" (1905) stated "in "Frankenstein" and "Melmoth the Wanderer", the Romantic orgy reached its height". The novel was described by H. P. Lovecraft as "an enormous stride in the evolution of the horror-tale", and Maurice Richardson also wrote an essay for "Lilliput" magazine praising "Melmoth". "Melmoth the Wanderer" was cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the 13 best supernatural horror novels. Thomas M. Disch placed "Melmoth the Wanderer" at number four in his list of classic fantasy stories. Devendra P. Varma described "Melmoth the Wanderer" as "the crowning achievement of the Gothic