Fantasmagoriana - Selected Tales of the Dead
German Gothic Ghost Stories of Folklore, Revenants, and Romantic TerrorBy Johann August Apel, Friedrich August Schulze, Johann Karl August Musäus
Length7h 34m
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Fantasmagoriana: Selected Tales of the Dead gathers Germanic supernatural fiction at a formative moment in the rise of European Gothicism. Its tales range from spectral visitations and ancestral curses to uncanny doubles, animated corpses, and the unstable border between rational explanation and terror. Alternating moral fable, folkloric fantasy, and psychologically suggestive horror, the collection demonstrates how the marvelous could serve both popular entertainment and serious meditation on death, guilt, memory, and belief. Its most enduring significance lies in its atmospheric economy and its influential repertoire of Gothic situations. The writings of Johann August Apel, Friedrich August Schulze, and Johann Karl August Musäus emerge from the rich intersections of German Romanticism, Enlightenment skepticism, Volksmärchen traditions, and the expanding nineteenth-century taste for the uncanny. Their varied approaches—sometimes satirical, sometimes sensational, sometimes antiquarian—preserve local legends while reshaping them for modern readers. Circulating beyond their original context through translation and adaptation, these stories became central to the transnational Gothic imagination and helped furnish the literary climate from which later Romantic horror developed. This volume rewards readers seeking a compact yet capacious introduction to the early Gothic tale. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare distinct narrative voices and cultural assumptions within a single haunted archive. Students of Romanticism, folklore, translation, and horror fiction will find both historical illumination and compelling reading, while general readers can trace a vivid dialogue between superstition, imagination, and literary innovation.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 34 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 15, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (The Complete Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
2Fantasmagoriana - Selected Tales of the Dead
3PREFACE
4I. THE FAMILY PORTRAITS.
5II. THE FATED HOUR.
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6III. THE DEATH'S HEAD.
7IV. THE DEATH-BRIDE.
8V. THE STORM.
9THE SPECTRE-BARBER OR, DUMB LOVE.1 (pt. 1)
10THE SPECTRE-BARBER OR, DUMB LOVE.1 (pt. 2)
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