Gustav Meyrink

• Dec-1985
• / Fantasy
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'A remarkable work of horror, half- way between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein.'The Observer 'Gustav Meyrink uses this legend in a dream-like setting on the Other Side of the Mirror and he has invested it with a horror so palpable that it ha...

• Sep-1991
• / Horror
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A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmuta...

• Jan-1997
• / Fantasy
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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....

• Jan-1997
• / Fantasy
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These tales - sc-fi, ghost-stories, gothic fables, oriental allegories - were written in the first decade of the century and are now translated for the first time.They make a magnificent introduction to his bizarre genius, which combined the sharp Bo...

• Jun-2001
• / Fantasy
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The White Dominican is Meyrink's most esoteric novel, and draws on the wisdom of a number of mystical traditions, the most important of which is Tao. It is set in a mystical version of the Bavarian town of Wasserburg, which sits on a promontory surro...

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction
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First published in 1994 it is a welcome return for these classic stories in a 2-volume collection of Meyrink’s short stories. Meyrink's short stories epitomised the non-plus-ultra of all modern writing. Their magnificent colour, their spine-chi...

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction
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This collection contains short stories translated for the first time as well as stories featured in Dedalus anthologies. Together with volume 1 they comprise the most comprehensive collection of Meyrink short stories to appear in English. Meyrink's s...