The legends of the black castle -- Captain Gubart's fortune -- A spirit in a raspberry -- Bouvard -- A dead man's bone -- The lake of the three lampreys (a popular tradition) -- The elixir of immortality (an imitation of the English) -- The letter U...
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The legends of the black castle -- Captain Gubart's fortune -- A spirit in a raspberry -- Bouvard -- A dead man's bone -- The lake of the three lampreys (a popular tradition) -- The elixir of immortality (an imitation of the English) -- The letter U (a madman's manuscript) -- The fated. "In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the effortlessly comical. Set in nineteenth-century Italy, his characters court spirits and blend in with the undead: passionate romances filled with jealousy and devotion are fueled by magic elixirs. Time becomes fluid as characters travel between centuries, chasing affairs that never quite prosper"--
