As a follow-up to my post about the collection Nineteenth Century German Tales, I've scanned a few more anthologies of German Romanticism. [9/2011 update: I now realize Gotthelf and co. come well after Romanticism, but at this time my mind bunched them all together.] The first two are from Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. in the mid-1970s, with covers by Tim Gaydos. The third is a surprisingly awesome (considering the budget look) anthology edited by Stephen Spender in 1960 (my copy is the seventh printing from 1970). This ratty paperback may have introduced me to Georg Buchner's Lenz, the most haunting depiction of madness I've encountered. I would recommend reading Richard Sieburth's translation from the always perfect Archipelago. The Spender anthology definitely introduced me to Ilse Aichinger's stupendous story "The Bound Man."

Like the Flores volume, Three Eerie Tales includes Gotthelf's Black Spider (the other novellas are The Jews' Beech Tree and The Rider on the White Horse). Four Romantic Tales includes "The Mad Invalid of Fort Ratonneau" by Achim von Arnim. This editor of the "Newspaper for Hermits" hasn't been translated enough.