Joel Lehtonen 3 hr read

A garland of dreamlike, lyrical tales, a 'star-mantle' woven of fantasy and wonder, from one of Finland's finest early-twentieth-century writers.

Joel Lehtonen's 1920 collection gathers poetic fantasy stories in Finnish. Lyrical, imaginative, of its era. Read it for the graceful, dreamlike short fiction of a major Finnish author, 'Star-Mantle,' a garland of fantasies rich with the mood and beauty of the Nordic literary imagination, a rare gem of early Finnish fantastic writing.

In its time

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

Reading it

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