Leslie S Klinger

First published in 1812, “Fantasmagoriana” has become one of the most seminal ghost-story anthologies of all time. Originally collected as a French translation of eight German-language tales, “Fantasmagoriana” famously led to the creation of such works as the horror-classic novel Frankenstein, the short story “The Vampyre” (a progenitor to the fantasy vampire genre), the novella “Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus,” the poem...