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The Thousand and One Phantoms: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 12 2025
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Alexandre Dumas witnesses a quarryman confess to a horrifying murder-claiming his wife's severed head spoke to him after death-he finds himself drawn into an evening of supernatural tales that blur the line between the living and the dead.
At a dinner party in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a doctor, a priest, a police superintendent, and other guests gather to debate whether such deathly activity is truly possible. One by one, they share their own chilling encounters with the supernatural: a guillotined lover's head that retains consciousness, a pale woman pursued by her dead brother's vengeful ghost, a vampire's bloody visitation in the Carpathian Mountains, and the restless spirits of France's revolutionary Terror.
Written during the tumultuous revolutions of 1848, The Thousand and One Phantoms showcases Dumas at his Gothic best-weaving historical trauma with macabre imagination, revolutionary violence with supernatural horror. These frame-narrative tales reveal a different side of the master storyteller: one fascinated by death, haunted by the guillotine's shadow, and captivated by the question of what lies beyond.
From the blood-soaked streets of revolutionary Paris to remote Eastern European castles, Dumas crafts an atmosphere of unrelenting detail and almost unbearable suspense that rivals the greatest Gothic horror of the era.
A dark masterpiece from the author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo-proving Dumas could terrify as brilliantly as he could entertain.
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