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Mike Mitchell

Translations by Mike Mitchell

Stephanie or a Previous Existence [Buy Direct]

by Herbert Rosendorfer
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Stephanie und das vorige Leben

Stephanie is another of Rosendorfer’s experiments with time. The story concerns what the subtitle calls the ‘previous existence’ of the heroine, Stephanie, a very ordinary German housewife who finds that what first appear to be dreams are in fact trips back in time. (more...)

The Night of the Amazons [Buy Direct]

by Herbert Rosendorfer
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Die Nacht der Amazonen

The Night of the Amazons is the blackest of black satires on Nazi Germany. It charts the rise of Christian Weber, one-time groom and pub bouncer, who exploits his status as one of the ‘Grand Old Soldiers’ of the ‘Movement’ (i.e. the Nazi Party), (more...)

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 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 Other Side [Buy Direct]

by Alfred Kubin
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Die andere Seite

Kubin was an artist whose primary medium was pen and ink. He was one of the best-known and most influential book illustrators of the first half of this century. His works record a fascination with the grotesque, with decay and horror, (more...)

The Golem [Buy Direct]

by Gustav Meyrink
Translated by Mike Mitchell

The Architect of Ruins [Buy Direct]

by Herbert Rosendorfer
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Der Ruinenbaumeister

Rosendorfer’s first and perhaps best novel is a Chinese box of a work. An amusingly intricate construction of twenty stories within stories within stories inside a narrative that is a descent into ever more distant levels of reality, until, with an elegant twist of his Möbius strip, (more...)

The Angel of the West Winow

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

Works edited by Mike Mitchell

The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy [Buy Direct]

(Anthology)