02.02.2021

“The Hearts of Kings” by Hanns Heinz Ewers

Magick Matters

"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

Magick Matters

"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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02.02.2021

“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Hanns Heinz Ewers

Magick Matters

"Frank Braun travels to the Italian countryside and gets caught up in the strange workings of a religious sect. He attempts to manipulate the group for his own purposes, a plan that leads to disaster and unimaginable suffering. This is the first uncensored English translation of this book and restores the novel to its rightful place in classical horror literature."...>>

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02.02.2021

“Hanns Heinz Ewers Volume II” by Hanns Heinz Ewers (The Collected Stories of Hanns Heinz Ewers Book 2)

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"This is the second volume in a collection of short stories by Hanns Heinz Ewers and translated by Joe E. Bandel and includes: “The White Maiden”,”Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Four Holy Three KIngs”,”The Water Corpse”,”Carnival in Cadiz”,”How Eleven Chinese Devoured Their Bride”,”From the Journal of an Orange Tree”,”Of Geese, Spirits, Leeches and the Cat Organ”,”Fairyland”,”Alraune and her Chauffeur”,”The Last Will and Testament of Stanislawa d’Asp”,”Mamaloi”,”The Worst Betrayal”,”The Lost Monkey”, plus a short introduction by Joe E. Bandel."...>>

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