Demons of the night
Subtitle: tales of the fantastic, madness, and the supernatural from nineteenth-century France
By: edited and with nine new translations by Joan C. Kessler.
Contributors: Kessler, Joan C.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, French -- Translations into English; French fiction -- 19th century -- Translations into English; Mentally ill -- Fiction; Occult fiction
Description: An anthology of thrillers and chillers from 19th Century France. In Theophile Gautier's The Dead in Love, a man develops an obsessive passion for a woman who has returned from the grave, while Honore de Balzac's The Red Inn is on a crime which is committed by one person in thought and another in deed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-347).