Ghosts and Robbers
An Anthology of German Gothic Fiction

Edited and with an Introduction of Daniel Corrick

At the start of the nineteenth century, German “Schauerliteratur” was so popular as to permanently associate that land with the Gothic and the ghostly. Translations of short pieces published in journals like The German Museum and Blackwood’s Magazine started a vogue for this new kind of fiction amongst the English reading public.

The present anthology, the first of its kind in a decade, collects together examples of these tales from many of the great masters of the genre, including Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué, Johann Karl August Musäus, Louisa Drachmann, and Heinrich Clauren. Featuring bandits, cursed knights, tragic spectres, witch cults, diabolical bargains and the thirsting dead, the pieces in this volume mark the point at which the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century met the psychological intensity of Romanticism in the birth of the modern horror story.

“The volume is an interesting and enjoyable experience both for scholars of Gothic literature and for the common readers fond of the dark, elegantly written fiction.” – Mario Guslandi, SFBook Review.

About Daniel Corrick
Daniel Corrick is an editor and literary historian with a specialist interest in nineteenth-¬century literature, especially the evolution of Gothicism and the Decadent movement. He has worked on a number of volumes including the collected fiction of Montague Summers, and unpublished works of Edgar Saltus and Edward Heron-Allen. In addition, he has edited several anthologies, including Sorcery and Sanctity: A Homage to Arthur Machen (Hieroglyphic Press, 2013), and Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology (Snuggly Books, 2018).

Paperback, 248 pages. Release date: December 14, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-087-6
Price: US$19.50