Founded four years before the American magazine
Weird Tales was initiated in March 1923,
Der Orchideengarten is considered to be the first fantasy magazine. Also described as largely 'supernatural horror', it was edited by
World War I correspondent and freelance writer
Karl Hans Strobl and
Alfons von Czibulka, published by Dreiländerverlag. It had 24 pages per issue printed on rough book paper.
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and
Guillaume Apollinaire. Other noted writers such as
Apuleius,
Charles Dickens,
Pushkin,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Washington Irving,
Amelia Edwards,
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
H. G. Wells,
Valery Bryusov and
Karel and
Josef Čapek were all published in
Der Ochideengarten. German language writers for the magazine included Strobl,
Hermann Harry Schmitz,
Leo Perutz and
Alexander Moritz Frey, as well as reprinted stories by
E. T. A. Hoffmann. Illustrations included reproductions of medieval
woodcuts and pictures by
Gustave Dore and
Tony Johannot, as well as contemporary artists such as
Rolf von Hoerschelmann (1885–1947),
Otto Linnekogel (1892–1981),
Karl Ritter (1888-?),
Heinrich Kley,
Alfred Kubin,
Eric Godal (1899–1969),
Carl Rabus, (1898–1982) (famous for his work in the magazine
Jugend)
Otto Nückel and
Max Schenke (1891–1957). ==References==