The Uncanny Guest (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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A charming, faintly sinister stranger arrives at a quiet gathering and slowly bends a whole household to his will in this masterful tale of mesmerism and creeping menace.
First published in 1819, The Uncanny Guest (Der unheimliche Gast) unfolds as a fireside circle is disturbed by a magnetic, otherworldly visitor whose power over a young woman grows ever more alarming. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), the German Romantic jurist, composer, and critic, was a supreme conjurer of dread in polite society, and this chilling story shows him at the height of his powers.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776–1822) was a German author, artist, and composer who is best remembered for his story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice.”
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