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    The Gespensterbuch (literally 'Ghost Book' or 'Book of Spectres') is a collection of German ghost stories written by August Apel and Friedrich Laun and...
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    by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 1810 collection Gespensterbuch. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin. It is considered...
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    from the first two volumes of Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun's Gespensterbuch (1810–1811), with other stories by Johann Karl August Musäus and Heinrich...
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    central character in Johann August Apel's story "Klara Mongomery" in the Gespensterbuch (1811). He married (1550) Isabeau de La Touche (died 1593), by whom...
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    which were from the first two volumes of their ghost story anthology Gespensterbuch ("The Ghost Book"); originally published in five volumes by G. J. Göschen...
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  • night heron. Johann August Apel's short story "Der Freischütz", from Gespensterbuch volume 1 (1810) has night-ravens flying around a magic circle of skulls...
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  • first tale in the first volume of the Gespensterbuch ('Book of Ghosts'). Friedrich Laun, co-author of the Gespensterbuch, owned a copy of Unterredung Von dem...
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    August Apel's short story "Der Geisterruf" ('The Ghost Call') from Gespensterbuch (volume 3, 1811) centers on the ethereal otherworldly quality of glass...
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    Dwarf Trauco Nightmare Incubus "Alp", a poem by Johann August Apel in Gespensterbuch volume 2 (1811) "Breakfast in Bed", an episode of the TV series Grimm...
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    were also written, such as Johann August Apel's "Der Todtentanz" in Gespensterbuch (vol 3, 1811), and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's "Das Schauerfeld"...
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