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The Four Talismans and Other Stories is the final volume in a series of collections of the work of Charles Nodier (1780-1844), the great pioneer of the prose fiction of the French Romantic Movement. The stories in the present collection, often fantastic and unashamedly intellectual, mostly appear here for the first time in English, in masterful translations by Brian Stableford.
Among the contents is the bizarre novella "Inès de Las Sierras"
(1837), in which, on December 24, 1812, three officers of the Napoleonic
army traveling to Barcelona are forced to spend the night in an abandoned
castle, where centuries ago a nobleman, Ghismondo de Las Sierras, stabbed
his young wife Inés in the excesses of an orgy-but legend has it
that every year, on Christmas Eve, Inés returns from the dead to
take her revenge.
Published by Snuggly Books in July 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64525-169-9
