E.T.A. Hoffmann was an enormous talent writing long before the market for weird fiction came into focus. One of the first great horror magazines -- Weird Tales -- stole the title of this two-volume collection without so much as a note of thanks Anyway, if you like weird fiction (probably a better word for the genre than horror), you'll love Hoffmann's Weird Tales.
E.T.A. Hoffmann was an enormous talent writing long before the market for weird fiction came into focus. One of the first great horror magazines --...
One of the first great horror magazines -- Weird Tales -- stole the title of this two-volume collection without so much as a note of thanks Anyway, if you like weird fiction (probably a better word for the genre than horror than horror), you'll love Hoffmann's Weird Tales.
One of the first great horror magazines -- Weird Tales -- stole the title of this two-volume collection without so much as a note of thanks Anyway...
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist.] His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppelia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while...
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic a...
