Collection Overview

This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most innovative and influential fantasy and horror authors ever to have been published, E.T.A. Hoffmann. This selection, specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:

The Golden Pot

The Sandman

Councillor Krespela

Automata

The Elementary Spirit

The Jesuits' Church in G--

The Story of the Hard Nut

Hoffmann's short stories have inspired great writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Jorge Luis Borges, among many others.