Title: Laßt die Todten ruhen

Title: Title Record # 1735252
Author: Ernst Raupach
Date: 1822-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: German

Note: This story in English is typically credited to Ludwig Tieck. Other versions of this story also appear under Tieck's bibliography. It was published next to a story by Tieck, in Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, Vol. 1,, all the stories being uncredited individually, and at some point afterward bibliographers started mistakenly saying that Popular Tales miscredited it to Tieck.

Synopsis: A widowed man abandons his second wife when a sorcerer resurrects his late wife, but she is no longer human.

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Year	Title
1822	Laßt die Todten ruhen: Ein Märchen [as by D. Ernst Raupach]

Year	Language	Title
1823^ⓘFirst published in Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, Vol. 1, ed. Anon., London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1823. It was published uncredited next to a story by Johann Ludwig Tieck, so at some point afterward bibliographers started mistakenly saying that Popular Tales miscredited it to Tieck. Charles M. Collins is probably the first to publish it under that byline, in 1967.	English	Wake Not the Dead [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck (in error)]
1823^ⓘThis story in English is often miscredited to Tieck. However, some sources (Mike Ashley in Vampires: Classic Tales and Andrew Barger in A9 of this webpage) attribute it to Ernst Raupach. Other versions of this story also appear under Raupach's bibliography.	English	Wake Not the Dead [as by Ludwig Tieck (in error)]
1823	English	Wake Not the Dead [as by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach]
1823	English	Wake Not the Dead [as by uncredited]
1823^ⓘTranslated by unknown.	English	Wake Not the Dead
1972^ⓘWrongly listed as by Tieck, this is actually a translation of Ernst Raupach's Lasst die Todten Ruhen (1822).	English	The Bride of the Grave [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck (in error)]
1988^ⓘTranslated by Henri-Daniel Wibaut.	French	Laisse dormir les morts
2011	English	Let the Dead Rest
2014^ⓘBy Ernst Raupach. Incorrectly attributed to Tieck.	English	Wake Not the Dead! or, The Bride of the Grave [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck (in error)]
2023^ⓘTranslated by Tiziana Tonon.	Italian	Non disturbare il sonno dei morti [as by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Minerva: Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1823	1822-00-00	ed. uncredited	Gerhard Fleischer			xxv+ 504	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth

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Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)