num_pages: 320
description: The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Perle, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconscious. Or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us'.Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allan Poe. In his combination of the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque, in his evocations of dream and nightmare, his creation of an atmosphere of mystery and fear he resembles Mervyn Peake.
language: English
title: The Other Side
titlecomplete: The Other Side
characters: Claus Patera, Leutnant de Nemi, Nikolaus Castringius, Professor Korntheur, Herkules Bell, Hektor von Brendel, Melitta Lampenbogen
genres: Fiction, Weird Fiction, Speculative Fiction, German Literature, Horror, Classics, Novels, Art, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 1813
publisher: Dedalus Limited