E. T. A. Hoffmann ~11 hr read

A circle of friends, scattered and reunited, meet to tell one another tales in the spirit of the hermit Serapion, stories of gamblers, murderers, uncanny guests, and the enchantments of the everyday.

E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1819 collection (volume two) gathers the fantastic tales of the German Romantic master. Eerie, inventive, superbly told. Read it for classic Hoffmann, 'Mademoiselle de Scudéri,' 'The King's Betrothed,' and more, framed by a circle of storytellers, from a founder of the modern fantastic tale.

In its time

Published in 1819, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

~11 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).