This new treasury of terror will propel you through fifty-eight stories and poems of fear and nightmare. Like its companion volume, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, this collection intends to terrify the reader with the cosmic fear of the unkn
First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitu
A stranger enters a magician's shop. Inside, among several strange customers, he sees an old man, who makes him sick with horror. The rest of the novel chronicles his quest for the elusive and horrible old man.
In den weltabgewandten alten Aristokraten am Hradschin über Prag erwachen die Dämonen der Vergangenheit, und die eigene mißbrauchte, verdorbene Jugend schreckt die Greise. In den entarteten Enkeln aber erstehen die Ahnen, geben ihnen ungeheure Kräfte
