Alraune

Hans Heinz Ewers—German writer, playwright, satirist. His works, which were already in the early 20th century regarded as outstanding achievements of fiction, are characterized by grotesque elements, mystery, and fantasy. Critics called him the German Edgar Allan Poe.

The novel presented in this volume, “Alraune,” written by Ewers in 1911, according to reviews of the press of his time, is his deepest work. “A strange blend of extrasensory mysticism and vivid realism—all that stamps Ewers’s works in a special way is discovered in ‘Alraune’ with virtuoso completeness… Besides its artistic value, this book is exceptionally captivating,” German newspapers wrote about it back then.