Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932)

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1. Gustav Meyrink

   Author of The Golem, The Angel of the West Window, Walpurgis Night

2. Joris-Karl Huysmans

   Author of Against the Grain, The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics), The Cathedral

3. Arthur Machen

   Author of The Three Imposters and Other Stories, The Hill of Dreams, Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

4. E. T. A. Hoffmann

   Author of Tales of Hoffmann (Penguin Classics), The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on random sheets of wastepaper edited by E. T. A. Hoffman, The Devil's Elixirs

5. Gustave Flaubert

   Author of Salammbô, The Temptation of Saint Anthony

6. Paul Leppin

   Author of Severin's Journey into the Dark, Blaugast : a novel of decline, Others' Paradise

7. Jorge Luis Borges

   Author of The Book of Imaginary Beings, The Library of Babel, Libro de sueños

8. Jan Potocki

   Author of The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

9. William Beckford

   Author of Vathek, The Episodes of Vathek

10. Julien Gracq

    Author of The Castle of Argol, Balcony in the Forest, A dark stranger

11. Charles Robert Maturin

    Author of Melmoth the Wanderer

12. Jean Lorrain

    Author of Monsieur de Phocas, Nightmares of an Ether-drinker

13. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

    Author of Cruel Tales, The Vampire Soul and Other Sardonic Tales, Le Convive des dernières fêtes

14. Hanns Heinz Ewers

    Author of Alraune, Nachtmahr

15. Franz Kafka

    Author of The Castle, De gier

16. Matthew Phipps Shiel

    Author of The Purple Cloud, Xelucha and Others, Prince Zaleski and Cumming's King Monk

17. Mark Samuels

    Author of The White Hands and Other Weird Tales, Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes

18. Robert Walser

    Author of Jakob von Gunten

19. Jean Ray

    Author of Malpertuis, The Horrifying Presence and Other Tales

20. Witold Gombrowicz

    Author of Ferdydurke