Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink, Vol. 1: The Opal and Other Stories
First published in 1994 it is a welcome return for these classic stories in a 2-volume collection of Meyrink's short stories. 'Meyrink's short stories epitomised the non-plus-ultra of all modern writing. Their magnificent colour, their spine-chilling and bizarre inventiveness, their aggression, their succinctness of style, their overwhelming originality of ideas, which is so evident in every sentence and phrase that there seem to be no lacunae.'Max Brod "These tales - sc-fi, ghost-stories, gothic fables, oriental allegories - were written in the first decade of the century and are now translated for the first time. They make a magnificent introduction to his bizarre genius, which combined the sharp Bohemian scepticism of his contemporary Kafka with the mordant humour and outreach of Swift." -Independent on Sunday— Google Books
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Contents All translations are by Maurice Raraty except for Wethergoblin The Introduction p5 The Ardent Soldier p15 The Brain p20 Izzi Pizzi p26 The Violet Death p33 The Terror p41 Petroleum, Petroleum p45 The Curse of the Toad p52 The Preparation p60 Dr. Lederer p66 The Opal p72 The Man on the Bottle p78 Blamol p88 The Truth-Drop p97 Dr. Cinderella’s Plants p102 St Gingolph’s Urn p112 The Ring of Saturn p118 The Automobile p128 The Waxworks p135 Fever 146 What’s the use of White Dog Shit? P153 Humming in the Ears p160 Bal Macabre p162 Rupert’s Drops p170 Coagulum p177 The Secret of Hathaway Castle p185 Chimera p191 A Suggestion p196 The Invalid p204 G.M. p206 Wethergoblin (translated by Mike Mitchell ) p214
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