“The Defier of Ghosts” (1824) is a story by Friedrich August Schulze, translated by Thomas De Quincey. You can read it today on my Patreon.

“Death Tokens” by Friedrich August Schulze, translated in The European Magazine, Volume 87, March 1825. You can read it today on my Patreon.

“The Death’s Head” by Friedrich August Schulze from Tales of the Dead (1813), translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson. You can read it today on my Patreon.

“The Spectre Bride” by Friedrich August Schulze comes from German Stories (1826), translated by Robert Pearse Gillies. You can read it today and tomorrow on my Patreon.  

“Wan the maiden was, Of saintly paleness, and there seem’d to dwell In the strong beauties of her countenance Something that was not earthly.” Southey’s Joan of Arc. “The clock has toll’d; and, hark! the bell Of death beats slow.” — Mason’s Elegies. The novel comes from Tales of the Dead (1813), translated by Sarah Elizabeth […]