Title page illustration from volume one, depicting "Der Freischütz"
The Gespensterbuch (literally 'Ghost Book' or 'Book of Spectres'[1]) is a collection of German ghost stories written by August Apel and Friedrich Laun and published in seven volumes between 1810 and 1817. Volumes five to seven were also published under the title Wunderbuch ('Book of Wonders'). The final volume was published after Apel's death, with stories by his friends Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and Carl Borromäus von Miltitz. Laun, Fouqué, Miltitz, and Caroline de la Motte Fouqué followed up on the series by publishing another book of ghost stories Aus der Geisterwelt ('From the Spirit-World') (1818).
^van Woudenberg, M. (2020). "Fantasmagoriana: The Cosmopolitan Gothic and Frankenstein". In Townshend, D.; Wright, A. (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 41–64. doi:10.1017/9781108561082.003. ISBN 9781108561082. S2CID 225516525.
The Gespensterbuch (literally 'Ghost Book' or 'Book of Spectres') is a collection of German ghost stories written by August Apel and Friedrich Laun and...
from the first two volumes of Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun's Gespensterbuch (1810–1811), with other stories by Johann Karl August Musäus and Heinrich...
which were from the first two volumes of their ghost story anthology Gespensterbuch ("The Ghost Book"); originally published in five volumes by G. J. Göschen...
night heron. Johann August Apel's short story "Der Freischütz", from Gespensterbuch volume 1 (1810) has night-ravens flying around a magic circle of skulls...
August Apel's short story "Der Geisterruf" ('The Ghost Call') from Gespensterbuch (volume 3, 1811) centers on the ethereal otherworldly quality of glass...
2007. Retrieved 5 November 2013. Warner, Marina. A forgotten gem: Das Gespensterbuch ('The Book of Ghosts'), An Introduction. H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural...
wrote many volumes, and with August Apel edited a ghost story anthology Gespensterbuch ('Book of Ghosts') (1810–1815). Thomas de Quincey, who translated several...
Circle, Vol. 44, No. 2/3, p. 83. "Der Rabe: Griechisches Märchen". Gespensterbuch. Vol. 2. Leipzig: G. J. Göschen. 1811. pp. 318–322. ISBN 978-3-628-36571-3...
as the first story of the first volume of his and Friedrich Laun's Gespensterbuch horror anthology (1810). Friedrich Kind and Carl Maria von Weber drew...
August Apel as "König Pfau" and included in the first volume of the Gespensterbuch (1810). The tale was also translated into Norwegian, as Prindsesse Rosette...
based on a German folk legend which the composer discovered in the Gespensterbuch ('Book of Ghosts') during his sojourn in Neuburg Abbey near Heidelberg...
folklore for inspiration; Der Freischütz is based on a tale from the Gespensterbuch ("Book of Wraiths") of Apel and Laun concerning a marksman who makes...
from F. C. & J. Rivington. Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun – Gespensterbuch Catherine Cuthbertson – The Forest of Montalbano Sarah Green – The Festival...
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