B007P4V3G4 EBOK (65 page)

The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy - editor Mike Mitchell

'Subtitled "The Meyrink Years 1890-1930', this is a of the bizarre, superb collection
the terrifying and the twisted, as interpreted by the
decadents and obsessives of fin de siecle Vienna. It features big names
like Kafka, Rilke and Schnitzler, but more intriguing are the lesserknown writers such as Franz Theodor Csokor with the vampiric "The
Kiss of the Stone Woman", Karl Hans Strobl, whose "The Wicked Nun"
begins as a ghost story but twists and turns into insanity and Paul
Busson, contributing an uncanny tale of feminine sorcery, "Folter's