• Publication: Gespensterbuch: Erstes BändchenPublication Record # 531653
• Editors: A. Apel, F. Laun
• Date: 1810-00-00
• Publisher: G. J. Göschen
• Pages: 288
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • This is the first of five (or six) volumes of Gespensterbuch (The Book of Ghosts) [Tr. Gespenter:Ghost, Buch:Book]. This 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.
  • First published in 1810, The 1810 edition is distinguished form the much more common 1811 edition, only by a change in the year on the title page, and the inclusion of a color frontispiece, as opposed to the black and white one found in later printings. None of the online scans to date have been of the 1810 edition, only the 1811. Those scans are what is linked above.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• iii • Vorrede (Gespensterbuch: Erstes Bändchen) • essay by F. Laun
• 1 • Der Freischütz: Eine Volkssage • short fiction by A. Apel (variant of
  Der Freischütz^?Der Freischuetz
  )
• 55 • Das Ideal • short fiction by F. Laun
• 125 • Der Geist des Verstorbenen • short fiction by F. Laun
• 175 • König Pfau: Feenmährchen nach dem Französischen • short fiction by A. Apel
• 239 • Die Verwandtschaft mit der Geisterwelt • novelette by F. Laun
• 281 • Nachrede (Gespensterbuch: Erstes Bändchen) • short fiction by A. Apel