E. T. A. Hoffmann ~7 hr read

Mademoiselle de Scudéri, The Doge and Dogess, Master Martin the Cooper, a second volume of eerie, inventive tales from the great German master of the fantastic.

This 1885 collection (volume two) gathers E. T. A. Hoffmann's weird fiction. Eerie, inventive, superbly told. Read it for classic Hoffmann, including the celebrated crime-mystery 'Mademoiselle de Scudéri,' an ancestor of the detective story, strange, romantic, uncanny tales 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

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).