E. T. A. Hoffmann ~6 hr read

Night-pieces of the uncanny, including 'The Sandman,' the terrifying tale of a man haunted from childhood by a dread bringer of darkness, and the automaton that undoes him.

E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1817 'Night Pieces' gathers his masterworks of German Romantic horror, foundational to the literature of the uncanny. Strange, brilliant, hugely influential. Read it for the tales that helped define the modern uncanny, including the immortal 'Sandman,' in German.

In its time

Published in 1817, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

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