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At the Ghost Hour. The House of the Unbelieving Thomas

by Paul Heyse

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In a northern German town, a house called The Unbelieving Thomas has given its street a reputation for ghosts. Wenzel Kospoth, a cobbler who becomes its caretaker, finds that neighbors mistake his late-night Bible reading for dealings with spirits. He arranges shelter in the courtyard lodgings for Frau Cordula and her daughter Gundula, who have suffered from village accusations of witchcraft.

Paul Heyse's German ghost story, presented here in English translation, places fearful gossip alongside the practical lives of people seeking work and safety. Inside the lodgings, the wounded Philip receives Frau Cordula's care, listens to her account of hardship, and watches Gundula at her sewing machine. These domestic scenes give the haunted setting a human scale.

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Paul Heyse

Paul Heyse built a wide-ranging German literary career as a novelist, poet, translator, and dramatist, earning the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mary of Magdala is the English title of his five-act historical drama Maria von Magdala, a work that places its central figure amid the spiritual and civic tensions of the ancient setting.

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