Erckmann-Chatrian 4 hr 15 min read

Uncle Christian's strange inheritance, a night in the haunted woods, a curse of the werewolf, a gathering of eerie tales rooted, as ever with these authors, in vivid historical truth.

Erckmann-Chatrian's tales (this 1876 English collection) gather atmospheric fantasy and horror from the celebrated French duo. Eerie, folkloric, superbly told. Read it for classic Continental weird fiction, a werewolf legend and other dark wonders of old Europe, from masters who blended supernatural dread with the texture of real history.

In its time

Published in 1876, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

4 hr 15 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).