Ayesha, the Return of She

'Ayesha, the Return of She' is a gothic-fantasy novel by English Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. In the book's prologue, the book's anonymous «Editor» receives a parcel. Opening it, he finds a letter from Horace Holly, with an enclosed manuscript containing a second memoir about She. There is also a second letter, from Holly's doctor, to whom Holly has entrusted his letter and manuscript, along with a wooden box, which contains an ancient sistrum. The doctor recounts how, when attending Holly in his last hours, he arrived at the house to find that Holly had risen from his deathbed and made his way to a local ring of ancient standing stones. Following him, the doctor glimpsed a manifestation that appeared to Holly, but as the vision vanished, Holly had let out a happy cry and died.