Dezső Szomory 1 hr 37 min read

A heavenly messenger descends into the mortal world in this Hungarian fantasy.

Dezső Szomory's 1920 work ('The Heavenly Messenger') brings a celestial visitor into human affairs, in the lyrical, decadent style of one of Hungary's most distinctive early-twentieth-century writers. A period piece of Central European literary fantasy from the years after the Great War. Read it for imaginative Hungarian fantasy from a singular voice of its era.

In its time

Published in 1920, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 37 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).