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02.02.2021

“The Spider” by Hanns Heinz Ewers

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"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens, three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays. The last of them was a police sergeant who had volunteered to sleep in the room to learn what happens that might explain the hangings, and somehow he met with the same fate. The medical student was aware of these incidents, but... "There was one detail about which he knew nothing because neither the police inspector nor any of the eyewitnesses had mentioned it to the press. It was only later, after what happened...>>

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02.02.2021

“Blood” by Hanns Heinz Ewers

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"Collects three contes cruels, "Mamaloi," "The White Maiden," and "Tomato Sauce," translated from the German by Erich Posselt and Sinclair Dombrow. Only a handful of Ewers' short stories had been translated into English until quite recently."...>>

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02.02.2021

“The Hearts of Kings” by Hanns Heinz Ewers

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"This book is probably best known in due to the ghastly plates by Stefan Eggeler. But, to those who have read more than one or two tales of Ewers, you will know that this book is suggested to be one of his finest works from short start to short finish. Macabre, scathing and every bit as powerful as the plates themselves...."...>>

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02.02.2021

“Vampire: A Wild Story in Scraps and Colors” by Hanns Heinz Ewers

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"As Frank Braun travels America in support of the German cause in the Great War, he undergoes a gradual transformation into a vampire . . . In this masterpiece of dark fantasy, Ewer explores themes of war, patriotism, exile, madness, and lust. This new uncensored version is translated into English for the first time by Joe Bandel."...>>

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02.02.2021

“Alraune” by Hanns Heinz Ewers

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"This is Hanns Heinz Ewers most famous decadent novel, newly translated and uncensored for the first time in the English language. Inspired by medieval beliefs in the occult properties of the mandrake root (alraune), which was thought to grow under gallows from the fallen semen of hanged men, an arrogant student, Frank Braun, persuades his vicious uncle, Jacob ten Brinken, to create a child through artificial insemination using sperm from a condemned man and a prostitute as the mother. The child, Alraune, grows into an extremely beautiful but thoroughly perverse young woman with a mysterious power to subject others and to bring riches and ruination."...>>

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