The Wildside Press edition includes the complete 1876 text of the
collection "The Man-Wolf and Other Tales" and adds four additional
stories: "The Invisible Eye," "The Murderer's Violin," "The Spider
of Guyana," and "The White and Black."
Emile Erckmann (1822-99) and Louis Alexandre Chatrian (1826-90)
began their writing partnership in the 1840s, and continued working
together-producing plays, novels, and short stories-until the year
before Chatrian's death. At the height of their powers they were
known as 'the twins', and their works proved popular in England,
where they began appearing (in translation) as early as 1865. After
their deaths, however, they slipped into obscurity; and apart from
the odd tale reprinted in anthologies, and the ill-fated collection
of their weird tales published by Millington in 1981, their work
has remained difficult to find.
"The collaborators Erckmann-Chatrian enriched French literature
with many spectral fancies like The Man-Wolf, in which a
transmitted curse works toward its end in a traditional
Gothic-castle setting." --H.P. Lovecraft
"I should feel myself ungrateful if I did not pay a tribute to
the supernatural tales of Erckmann-Chatrian. The blend of French
with German in them, comparable to the French-Irish blend in Le
Fanu, has produced some quite first-rate romances of this kind." --
M. R. James
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