Publisher's Synopsis
It is the author's stupid opinion that stupidity is very undervalued nowadays. To vindicate this quality, he has written the books gathered in this compilation. The protagonist of the first is the Victorian ghost in all its variety: visible ghosts, invisible ghosts, dancing ghosts, crazy ghosts, singing ghosts, giggling ghosts, ghostly ghosts... The second addresses the mysteries of the paranormal, mainly by the hand of the Society for Psychical Research in its infancy at the end of the 19th century (inevitably, also here you'll find some ghosts). The third plunges us into the Romantic era: writers of the stature of Lord Byron, Goethe, Bettina Brentano, Hölderlin, Novalis, et cetera, face all kinds of weird phenomena such as ghosts (yes, I'm afraid that there are ghosts around again), palmistry, aliens, love... and philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The fourth insists on the subject of the paranormal, this time located in New York City in the mid-1930s (more ghosts here). And finally the fifth delves into the secrets of Kabbalah by the hand of the famous Wise Men of Chelm (no ghosts here, but a golem and a dybbuk). All five books well seasoned with large doses of what anthropologists call 'idiotic thinking'. "These stories don't bode well for the author's mental state" Michael Bishop "It makes no sense" Lisa Ahlstedt "An outrage to reason" Oliver Neff "In this book everyone is crazy, including the author" Tina Fuchsel
