The Invisible Eye: Tales of Terror by Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian

The Invisible Eye: Tales of Terror by Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian
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A collection of the finest supernatural tales by two of the best Victorian writers of weird tales – Erckmann–Chatrian, authors who inspired M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many others.Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian began their writing partnership in the 1840s and continued working together until the year before Chatrian’s death in 1890. At the height of their powers they were known as ‘the twins’, and their works proved popular translated into English. After their deaths, however, they slipped into obscurity; and apart from the odd tale reprinted in anthologies, their work has remained difficult to find and to appreciate.In The Invisible Eye, veteran horror anthologist Hugh Lamb has collected together the finest weird tales by Erckmann–Chatrian. The world of which they wrote has long since vanished: a world of noblemen and peasants, enchanted castles and mysterious woods, haunted by witches, monsters, curses and spells. It is a world brought to life by the vivid imagination of these authors and praised by successors including M.R. James and H. P. Lovecraft. With an introduction by Hugh Lamb, and in paperback for the first time, this collection will transport the reader to the darkest depths of the nineteenth century: a time when anything could happen – and occasionally did.

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Hugh Lamb. The Invisible Eye: Tales of Terror by Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian

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Dedication

INTRODUCTION

THE INVISIBLE EYE

THE OWL’S EAR

THE WHITE AND THE BLACK

THE BURGOMASTER IN BOTTLE

MY INHERITANCE

THE WILD HUNTSMAN

LEX TALIONIS

THE CRAB SPIDER

THE MYSTERIOUS SKETCH

THE THREE SOULS

A LEGEND OF MARSEILLES

COUSIN ELOF’S DREAM

THE CITIZEN’S WATCH

THE MURDERER’S VIOLIN

THE CHILD-STEALER

THE MAN-WOLF

SOURCES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Also in this series

About the Publisher

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To my wonderful family:

Richard and Maggie

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I saw at his window the traveller who occupied the green chamber at the Boeuf-gras; he was a peasant of Nassau, wearing a three-cornered hat, a scarlet waistcoat, and having a broad laughing countenance. He was tranquilly smoking his pipe, unsuspicious of anything wrong.

About two o’clock Fledermausse came back. The sound of her door opening echoed to the end of the passage. Presently she appeared alone, quite alone in the yard, and seated herself on the lowest step of the gallery-stairs. She placed her basket at her feet and drew from it, first several bunches of herbs, then some vegetables – then a three-cornered hat, a scarlet velvet waistcoat, a pair of plush breeches, and a pair of thick worsted stockings – the complete costume of a peasant of Nassau!

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