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‘Wer reitet so spät, Durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater Mit seinem Kind.’
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
In Germany it was called the Schauerroman (the shudder-novel), where the genre began to incorporate elements of the early machine age. German writer E. T. A. Hoffmann was fascinated by automata, and, inevitably, automata that seem to be alive, blurring the lines between biology and clockwork.
Jeanette Winterson • Night Side of the River
He puts his ear to the ground.
Georg Büchner • Woyzeck
The Terrifying Tales by Edgar Allan Poe: Tell Tale Heart; The Cask of the Amontillado; The Masque of the Red Death; The Fall of the House of Usher; The ... Purloined Letter; The Pit and the Pendulum
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Idris Parry, “Kafka, Rilke, and Rumpelstiltskin.” The Listener. British Broadcasting Corporation, London, December 2, 1965. p. 895.