Compañeros en el camino : Un viaje espiritual por las relaciones de pareja (Paperback)

from pgmcc

Meyrink's horror story set in the Prague Ghetto and based on the cabalist legend of a human-like being created from clay is much richer than I had expected. It has been on my "to-be-read" list for a long time and I always perceived that it was going to be a slower and more arduous read than it tu...

from baswood

Suffering the initial onslaught from a nasty head cold I sat in front of the computer screen. It was nearly midnight and the rain was battering the skylight just above my head. The old timbers of my attic were creaking and groaning, the mice were scrabbling around on the roof trying to get in and...

from DieFledermaus

I enjoyed the Gothic atmosphere of this book and the many interesting and nicely creepy stories. There's a rather disjointed plot and I don't think I got all the Cabala-related mysticism that goes on. The occasionally overheated prose effectively conveys the settings - dark back alleys, undergrou...

from Poquette

The Golem is a surprising book in two ways. First, Meyrink's Golem is not the frightful simian horror suggested by the book's cover. Instead, it is an enigmatic and elusive figure, dreamed up in the Middle Ages by a conjuring rabbi who "had first to create it in his mind before he could clothe it...

from neurodrew

Originally published in German in 1915; translation by Mike Mitchell 1955; Folio Society edition 2010 I became engrossed in this atmospheric tale, about the Jewish Quarter in Prague, with mysteries everywhere. The narrator is Athanasius Pernath, who lives in a small flat and supports himself by e...