Walpurgisnacht

Walpurgisnacht

Author

Gustav Meyrink

Language

German

Year

1917

First Pub.

Germany

Genre

Novel

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Walpurgisnacht is a 1917 novel by the Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink. It is set in the Hradčany district of Prague during World War I and depicts violent unrest through a series of eccentric characters. A central plot development concerns the legend of how the Hussite commander Jan Žižka ordered for his skin to be made into a war drum after his death, and how Žižka seems to possess a sleepwalking actor. The novel has prominent occult themes and elements of social satire and gothic fiction.