The Uncanny Guest (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

By E.T.A. Hoffmann

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447465679
• ISBN13: 9781447465676
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Fantasy and Horror Classics
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"