The Opal (and other stories)

Gustav Meyrink (I868-1932) found worldwide critical and commercial acclaim with his first novel The Golem (I9I5), which prior to the Dedalus Meyrink programme has been the only work, revised in 2017, which was followed by the first English translations of The Green Face, Walpurgisnacht, The Angel of the West Window, The White Dominican, The Opal (and other stories). These were added to by The Dedalus Meyrink Reader, which contained previously untranslated short stories, essays and biographical material as well as a sampler of the rest of the Meyrink oeuvre.

Maurice Raraty was a senior lecturer in German at the University of Kent, with an interest also in Comparative Literature. He has published various studies on the work of E.T.A. Hoffman and has translated a wide variety of texts from German.

For Dedalus he has compiled and translated with Mike Mitchell The Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink Volume 1 (The Opal and Other Stories).