Gustav Meyrink ~5 hr read

In a post-war Amsterdam thick with occult undercurrents, a man glimpses a mysterious green face that draws him toward an ancient spiritual mystery.

Gustav Meyrink's 1916 novel, by the author of 'The Golem,' weaves esoteric philosophy and dread through a hallucinatory city on the brink of apocalypse. Strange, visionary German-language occult fiction. Read it for a haunting, mystical novel from a master of the weird and the metaphysical.

In its time

Published in 1916, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).