Otto Julius Bierbaum 1 hr 36 min read

Stories of the strange and the satirical, including the tale that gives the book its title: the infernal automobile.

Otto Julius Bierbaum's 1905 collection ('The Hellish Automobile') gathers early-modern German novellas touching the fantastic and the grotesque, from a versatile writer of the era. A period volume of German-language fantasy and satire. Read it for inventive turn-of-the-century tales with a diabolical machine at their center.

In its time

Published in 1905, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 36 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).