The Golem

1915 · Book · horror fiction, weird fiction, speculative fiction

Gustav Meyrink

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The Golem is a Gothic novel written by Gustav Meyrink between 1907 and 1914. First published in serial form from December 1913 to August 1914 in the periodical Die Weißen Blätter, The Golem was published in book form in 1915 by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig. The Golem was Meyrink's first novel. It sold over 200,000 copies in 1915. It became his most popular and successful literary work, and is generally described as the most "accessible" of his full-length novels. It was first translated into English in 1928.

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Type: Book
Release date: January 1, 1915
Genres: horror fiction, weird fiction, speculative fiction
Created by: Gustav Meyrink
Countries: Germany, Austria