The Gespensterbuch (literally 'Ghost Book' or 'Book of Spectres') is a collection of German ghost stories written by August Apel and Friedrich Laun and...
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by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 1810 collection Gespensterbuch. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin. It is considered...
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from the first two volumes of Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun's Gespensterbuch (1810–1811), with other stories by Johann Karl August Musäus and Heinrich...
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which were from the first two volumes of their ghost story anthology Gespensterbuch ("The Ghost Book"); originally published in five volumes by G. J. Göschen...
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night heron. Johann August Apel's short story "Der Freischütz", from Gespensterbuch volume 1 (1810) has night-ravens flying around a magic circle of skulls...
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August Apel's short story "Der Geisterruf" ('The Ghost Call') from Gespensterbuch (volume 3, 1811) centers on the ethereal otherworldly quality of glass...
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central character in Johann August Apel's story "Klara Mongomery" in the Gespensterbuch (1811). He married (1550) Isabeau de La Touche (died 1593), by whom...
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2007. Retrieved 5 November 2013. Warner, Marina. A forgotten gem: Das Gespensterbuch ('The Book of Ghosts'), An Introduction. H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural...
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Dwarf Trauco Nightmare Incubus "Alp", a poem by Johann August Apel in Gespensterbuch volume 2 (1811) "Breakfast in Bed", an episode of the TV series Grimm...
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were also written, such as Johann August Apel's "Der Todtentanz" in Gespensterbuch (vol 3, 1811), and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's "Das Schauerfeld"...
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first tale in the first volume of the Gespensterbuch ('Book of Ghosts'). Friedrich Laun, co-author of the Gespensterbuch, owned a copy of Unterredung Von dem...
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as the first story of the first volume of his and Friedrich Laun's Gespensterbuch horror anthology (1810). Friedrich Kind and Carl Maria von Weber drew...
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wrote many volumes, and with August Apel edited a ghost story anthology Gespensterbuch ('Book of Ghosts') (1810–1815). Thomas de Quincey, who translated several...
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(2004) includes "The Erlking". Johann August Apel's poem "Alp", in Gespensterbuch (volume 2, 1811), was based on the "Erlkönig", but using the folkloric...
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based on a German folk legend which the composer discovered in the Gespensterbuch ('Book of Ghosts') during his sojourn in Neuburg Abbey near Heidelberg...
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Circle, Vol. 44, No. 2/3, p. 83. "Der Rabe: Griechisches Märchen". Gespensterbuch. Vol. 2. Leipzig: G. J. Göschen. 1811. pp. 318–322. ISBN 978-3-628-36571-3...
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August Apel as "König Pfau" and included in the first volume of the Gespensterbuch (1810). The tale was also translated into Norwegian, as Prindsesse Rosette...
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from F. C. & J. Rivington. Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun – Gespensterbuch Catherine Cuthbertson – The Forest of Montalbano Sarah Green – The Festival...
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folklore for inspiration; Der Freischütz is based on a tale from the Gespensterbuch ("Book of Wraiths") of Apel and Laun concerning a marksman who makes...
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