Unknown author ~5 hr read

The Enchanter Faustus, The Devil in Love, and the goblins of Kernosy castle, a volume of cabalistic romances and marvelous tales from a great eighteenth-century anthology of the fantastic.

This 1788 volume gathers French tales of magic and the supernatural, including Cazotte's celebrated 'Le Diable amoureux.' Rich, strange, foundational. Read it for a treasury of Enlightenment-era fantasy from the vast Voyages Imaginaires series, enchanters, amorous devils, and haunted castles, a key collection in the history of supernatural and speculative literature, here in the original French.

In its time

Published in 1788, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).