E. T. A. Hoffmann ~6 hr read

The Sand-Man, The Cremona Violin, The Entail, a first volume of strange and haunting tales from the great German master of the fantastic and the uncanny.

This 1885 collection (volume one) gathers E. T. A. Hoffmann's weird fiction. Eerie, inventive, superbly told. Read it for classic Hoffmann, including 'The Sand-Man,' the nightmarish doppelgänger tale that Freud made famous in his essay on the uncanny, strange, romantic stories from a founding master of the fantastic whose influence runs through Poe, Gogol, and all of weird fiction.

In its time

Published in 1885, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).