A forbidden fantasy book set in Bohemia at the end of the First World War, which was a milestone in the literature of the fantastic!
Σin the shadow of a Bohemian castle, at the end of the First World War, a series of ghostly situations takes place, all during the so-called Walpurgis Night.
On this night the dividing veil between the worlds weakens and the spirits of the dead are allowed to cross it. The night turns into an orgy of liberation and terror, a moment in which the world is turned upside down and servant and master can temporarily switch places.
The book's protagonists are haunted by their own ancestors, with the dead returning symbolically and literally in an otherworldly tale of revolution and necromancy.
Aristocrats, haunted by their sick past, are surrounded by revolutionaries whose only motivation is greed. The village fool gives the beat with a drum made of human skin. The crowd pours into the streets of Prague and the possessed march to crown a poor student Emperor of the World.
It's the Black Sabbath of the Witches. An evening where all normality is surrendered to the orgiastic intoxication of an otherworldly transformation...
By its author Golem, in the first translation into Greek, a work that was a milestone in the literature of the fantastic, which had been banned by the German Nazis.
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