Jules Lermina 3 hr 6 min read

Incredible stories where the real, deformed by dream and hallucination, becomes vast and strange, the fantastic as a form of poetry.

Jules Lermina's 1885 collection ('Incredible Stories,' Volume 1) gathers French tales of the weird, the eerie, and the impossible. Atmospheric, imaginative fin-de-siècle fantasy. Read it for a set of hypnotic French stories that prize the uncanny and the hallucinatory over mere reality.

In its time

Published in 1885, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

3 hr 6 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).