The Nightcharmer and Other Tales

✍ Scribed by Seignolle, Claude

• Book ID: 109428769
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 233 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780890961698

✦ Synopsis

These eight tales of mystery and the supernatural feature sorcerers, the Grim Reaper in a horse-drawn coach, a beguiling bird of death, a long-dead saint turned devil, and a whole retinue of creatures of the night. Claude Seignolle, distinguished French ethnographer and folklorist and author of more than twenty-three volumes of short stories and novels, is a master of the �rustic� tale, which depicts folklore and popular traditions of the French countryside. He incarnates Satan as an entity sharing human traits, an evil spirit who identifies himself with human suffering. Seignolle�s Gothic stories are not meant merely to terrorize, however; they are intended to revive an oral tradition in danger of becoming extinct.