Dimensions
126 x 198 x 25mm
A remarkable work of horror, half-way between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Frankenstein.
- The Observer An atmospheric, spine-chilling novel which brings the old Jewish ghetto of Prague alive. A great piece of city writing. Mike Mitchell has revised his translation and a new introduction has been added. 'A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring the Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests every 33 years in a room without a door. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. Made into a film in 1920, this extraordinary book combines the uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama... Meyrink's old Prague - like Dickens's London - is one of the great creation of city writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen.' - Phil Baker in The Sunday Times
