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Gustav Meyrink

Works by Gustav Meyrink

The White Dominican [Buy Direct]

by Gustav Meyrink
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Der weiße Dominikaner

Walpurgisnacht [Buy Direct]

by Gustav Meyrink
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Walpurgisnacht

The Opal and Other Stories (1913) [Buy Direct]

by Gustav Meyrink
Translated by Maurice Raraty
Original title: Des deutschen Spießers Wunderhorn

Meyrink’s short stories contain the elements of the grotesque, horror, the supernatural, and the interest in the occult that are found in his novels. Many also have a strong satirical element directed at the sacred cows of imperial society (both the German and Austrian versions), (more...)

The Green Face [Buy Direct]

by Gustav Meyrink
Original title: Das grüne Gesicht

The Golem [Buy Direct]

by Gustav Meyrink
Translated by M Pemberton
Original title: Der Golem

The Golem was Meyrink’s most successful novel — it sold 150,000 copies within two years of its publication — and the one for which he is still remembered. It is not the book of the famous Expressionist film of the same name, the first version of which was made in 1914, (more...)

The Angel of the West Window [Buy Direct]

by Gustav Meyrink
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Der Engel vom westlichen Fenster

The Angel of the West Window is based on the life of the Elizabethan scholar and sorcerer, John Dee, using much of Dee’s own writings. An imagined twentieth-century descendant inherits Dee’s notebooks and, with the help of drugs and a mysterious ghostly Russian, (more...)

The Golem [Buy Direct]

by Gustav Meyrink
Translated by Mike Mitchell

The Angel of the West Winow

by Gustav Meyrink
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Der Engel vom westlichen Fenster