The Unknown Collaborator: And Other Legendary Tales

Histoires ténébreuses by Victor Joly here translated as The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales was first published in Brussels by Auguste Schnee & Co. in 1857. It collects three novellas and a short story all affiliated albeit a trifle belatedly and more than a little ironically to the Romantic Movements of France and Germany fusing the two influences in a fashion that only a Belgian writer was likely to attempt and thus producing a hybrid whose distinctiveness is particularly obvious in the first two stories in the collection each of which makes a significant contribution to the rich tradition of Romantic satanic fantasies.