My Fantoms (New York Review Books Classics)
"Gautier was a leading writer of the Romantic movement and forms a bridge between the supernatural fiction of Goethe and E.T.A. Hoffmann and the pivotal pulp magazineWeird Tales."-Cynthia Ward"Théophile Gautier was one of the most important writers of fantastic tales in France during the Romantic period."-The Modern Language Journal"It is in Théophile Gautier that we first seem to find an authentic French sense of the unreal world, and here there appears a spectral mystery which, though not continuouslyused, is recognizable at once as something alike genuine and profound." -H. P. LovecraftGautier writes "...stories of remarkable artistry, rich in irony and nostalgia, in which the subtle play of passion with terror is expressed in a precise, elegant prose style." —The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror & the Supernatural