The Golem

Gustav Meyrink (1868 - 1932)
Translated by Madge Pemberton

Pernath is a man without a past, a cutter of stones, living in the Jewish Ghetto in the city of Prague and interacting with a strange cadre of individuals including the greedy and conniving Wastertrum, the maker of marionettes Zwakh, the fiery Rosina with morals as loose as her tongue, the wise and mysterious Hillel and his fetching daughter Miriam. The legend says that the golem, the living figure of clay in servitude to his masters, will return every 33 years. Is Pernath himself the golem? Is the golem sequestered away in the room in the tower with no doors? Or is the golem something less concrete? Dreamlike and vivid, Gustav Meyrink's The Golem is a masterpiece of modernist weird fiction.... Haunting, eerie and inscrutable...

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): horror (226), weird (27), Prague (7), Golem (2), jewish mysticism (2)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Sleep Ben Tucker
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Play 02 Day Ben Tucker
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Play 03 "I" Ben Tucker
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Play 04 Prague Ben Tucker
00:24:39
Play 05 Punch Ben Tucker
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Play 06 Night Ben Tucker
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Play 07 Awake Ben Tucker
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Play 08 Snow Ben Tucker
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Play 09 Ghosts Ben Tucker
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Play 10 Light Ben Tucker
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Play 11 Distress Ben Tucker
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Play 12 Fear Ben Tucker
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Play 13 Urge Ben Tucker
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Play 14 Woman Ben Tucker
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Play 15 Trickery Ben Tucker
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Play 16 Torment Ben Tucker
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Play 17 May Ben Tucker
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Play 18 Moonlight Ben Tucker
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Play 19 End Ben Tucker
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