Fantasmagoriana

Fantasmagoriana takes its name from Étienne-Gaspard Robert's , a phantasmagoria show (, from , "fantasy" or "hallucination", and possibly , "assembly" or "meeting", with the suffix ) of the late 1790s and early 1800s, using magic lantern projection together with ventriloquism and other effects to give the impression of ghosts (). This is appended with the suffix , which "denotes a collection of objects or information relating to a particular individual, subject, or place". The subtitle "" translates as "anthology of stories of apparitions of spectres, revenants, phantoms, etc.; translated from the German by an amateur". The book and its title went on to inspire others by different authors, named in a similar vein: Spectriana (1817), Démoniana (1820) and Infernaliana (1822). ==Stories==

Eyriès chose a selection of eight German ghost stories to translate for a French audience. The first story ("") was from Johann Karl August Musäus' satirical retellings of traditional folk tales (1786). The next ("") was by Johann August Apel, first published in Johann Friedrich Kind's (1805), but reprinted in Apel's anthology (1810). Of the remaining six tales, five were from the first two volumes of Apel and Laun's (1810–1811), and one ("") was by the highly popular author Heinrich Clauren, which had been parodied by Apel in one of his stories ("", translated as ""). Fantasmagoriana was partly translated into English in 1813 by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson as Tales of the Dead, containing the first five stories (see list, below); thus three of the five stories from . Three editions in three countries and languages over a period of three years shows that these ghost stories were very popular. List of stories ==Reception==

An 1812 review of Fantasmagoriana in the '' concluded that "For a translation from the German this is not too badly written, nor too badly told". Friedrich Laun quoted this review in his Memoirs, attributing it to Julien Louis Geoffroy, and also mentioned that he owned a copy of Fantasmagoriana''. ==References==