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1 The Walpurgis-Night Hoffmann , 1871 single work short story thriller
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 6 no. 72 1871; (p. 501-506) A man on business in Prague, impatient to return to his beloved wife, loses his pocketbook with nearly $1400 in it. It is restored to him by a man he takes to be Satan, and shortly after another meeting - on Walpurgis Night - he is unfaithful to his wife, a murderer, an arsonist, a highway robber and a fratricide. This resolves itself into a dream ... but the force of the tale is in cultivating faith and strength of character. (PB)
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