The Golem (Dedalus European Classics)

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"A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring The Golem a kind of rabbinical Frankensteins monster which manifests iitself 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 uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama... Meyrinks old Prague - like Dickens London - is one of the great creations of City writing an eerie claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen." -- Phil Baker in The Sunday Times