OPAL

"Meyrink's short stories epitomised the non-plus-ultra of all modern writing. Their magnificent colour, their spine-chilling and bizarre inventiveness, their aggression, their succinctness of style, their overwhelming originality of ideas, which is so evident in every sentence and phrase that there seem to be no lacunae: all this captivated me, and seemed to me to provide antidote to all the adjectival prose and shallow, false romanticism of the immediate preceding generation." - Max Brod

Contents:

The Ardent Soldier
The Brain
Izzi Pizzi
The Violet Death
Terror
Petroleum, Petroleum
The Curse of the Toad - Curse of the Toad
The Black Ball
The Preparation
Dr. Lederer
The Opal
The Man on the Bottle
Blamol
The Truth-Drop
Dr. Cinderella's Plants
St. Gingolph's Urn
The Ring of Saturn
The Automobile
The Waxworks
Fever
What's the Use of White Dog Shit?
Humming in the Ears
Bal Macabre
Rupert's Drops
Coagulum
The Secret of Hathaway Castle
Chimera
A Suggestion
The Invalid
G.M.
Wethergoblin