Ludwig Berger 41 min read

A queen's cry of anguish, a drowned child, and the wailing echo of a name, Imma, open this lyrical dramatic fantasy of grief, fate, and a haunting spirit of play.

Ludwig Berger's 1920 work (in the original German, 'Spielgeist: Eine Phantasie') is an Expressionist dramatic fantasy. Intense, poetic, of its era. Read it for a striking piece of early-twentieth-century German fantastic drama, a stylized, incantatory reverie of loss and enchantment, from a noted writer and filmmaker.

In its time

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

Reading it

41 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).