Thursday, July 13, 2006

New German Gothic Series

Zittaw Press is proud to announce the launch of a new series of Ten German Gothic novels that have shaped and influenced their English counterparts. This unique series, under the direction of Norbert Besch and Franz Potter, will begin in 2007 with Matthew Lewis's The Bravo of Venice (1805); from the German of Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke.

The other titles will include:

Peter Will: The Victim of Magical Delusion (1795); from the German of Cajetan Tschink.

Joseph Trapp: The Genius; or, the Mysterious adventures of Don Carlos de Grandez (1796) from the German of Carl Grosse.

Anon.: Hermann of Unna (1794); from the German of Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert.

Matthew Gregory Lewis: Feudal Tyrants (1806); from the German of Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert.

John Hinckley: The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini; Captain of Banditti (1800); from the German of Christian August Vulpius.

D. Boileau: The Ghost-seer (1795); from the German of Friedrich von Schiller.

Robert Pierce Gillies: The Devil's Elixir (1824); from the German of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hofmann.

Three Gothic Novels from the German of Veit Weber (i.e. Leonhard Waechter)
Robert Huish: The Sorcerer
Anon.: The Black Valley
James Powell: Wolf; or, The Tribunal of Blood

Anon.: The Dwarf of Westerbourg (1827); from the German of Christian Heinrich Spiess.

A special thanks must go out to Norbert Besch for all his assistance in this forthcoming series as well as contributing to Zittaw Press as a whole. Through his diligent efforts, Zittaw Press has been able to obtain many of the texts republished thus far, and his guidance in this new series is greatly appreciated.