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Imbued with a sense of light-hearted cynicism, literary crictic
Jules Janin (1804-1874) penned a vast number of eccentric and
sometimes improvised fantastic and horror stories, now mostly
forgotten. This first-ever American collection gathers a sampler of
his unusual talent, as exemplified by the eponymous tale about a
dead man kept alive by magnetism, published several months before
Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845). Other tales
gathered here include fake folk legends, paradoxical ghost stories
in the vein of ETA Hoffmann, and surreal reflections on the
supernatural nature of music. "Janin was probably closer to Poe in
spirit, although his ambition took him in a different direction."
Brian Stableford.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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