The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer — Read

I will tell you now of a strange dream which I dreamed, and of the stranger things to which I awakened. Since, out of a blank -- a void -- this vision burst in upon my mind, I cannot do better than relate it, without preamble. It was thus:

I dreamed that I lay writhing on the floor in agony indescribable. My veins were filled with liquid fire, and but that stygian darkness was about me, I told myself that I must have seen the smoke arising from my burning body.