 fantasmagoriana is a french anthology of german ghost stories, translated anonymously by jean-baptiste benoÃ®t eyriÃ¨s and published in 1813. it was read by lord byron, mary shelley, percy bysshe shelley, john william polidori and claire clairmont at the villa diodati in cologny, switzerland during the year without a summer, and inspired them to write their own ghost stories, including "the vampyre" (1819), and frankenstein (1823), which went on to shape the gothic horror genre. ==stories== eyriÃ¨s chose a selection of eight german ghost stories to translate for a french audience. the first story ("l'amour muet") was from johann karl august musÃ¤us' satirical retellings of traditional folk tales volksmÃ¤rchen der deutschen (1786). the next ("portraits de famille") was by johann august apel, first published in 1805, but reprinted in his anthology cicaden (1810). of the remaining six tales, five were from the first two volumes of apel and laun's gespensterbuch (1811), and one ("la chambre grise") was by the highly popular author heinrich clauren, which had been parodied by apel in one of his gespensterbuch stories ("la chambre noire"). ===list of stories=== {| class="wikitable" ! fantasmagoriana !! english translation !! german original !! german source !! author |- | "l'amour muet" || dumb love || "stumme liebe" || volksmÃ¤rchen der deutschen, vol. 4 || musÃ¤us |- | "portraits de famille" || family portraits |
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