• Publication: Gespensterbuch: Zweites BändchenPublication Record # 531685
• Editors: A. Apel, F. Laun
• Date: 1811-00-00
• Publisher: G. J. Göschen
• Pages: 336
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • This is the second of five (or six) volumes of Gespensterbuch (The Book of Ghosts) [Tr. Gespenter:Ghost, Buch:Book]. The first two volumes of this publication are the source of the stories that inspired the authors of the original Frankenstein and Vampire stories of the 19th Century.
  • The full text and images of five volumes are available at The Internet Archive.
  • The full text and images of a later printing of Volume One are available at Google Books. Volumes Two, Three, Four, and Five are also available from Google Books.
  • The full text and images of the first four volumes are available at The HathiTrust Digital Library.
  • Worldcat has a record of the Table of contents of the sixth volume, however no online scan has been found of that volume at this time.
  • The table of contents severely abbreviates the names of the editors. Those contents written by the editors are indexed using the same name form as used for the book title page.
  • The content item titled "Kleine Sagen und Märchen" (Fine Folk Stories) on page 301 appears to be a collection of poems and songs and as such has a number of smaller works within it that are unindexed at this time.

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 1 • Die Todtenbraut • novella by F. Laun
• 73 • Die Bräutigamsvorschau: Volkssage • short fiction by A. Apel
• 143 • Der Todtenkopf • novelette by F. Laun
• 181 • Die schwarze Kammer: Anekdote • short story by A. Apel
• 207 • Das Todesvorzeichen • short fiction by F. Laun
• 255 • Der Brautschmuck: Deutsches Volksmärchen • short fiction by A. Apel
• 301 • Kleine Sagen und Märchen • poem by A. Apel