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Stefan Grabiński

    February 26, 1887 – November 12, 1936

    Stefan Grabiński was a Polish writer of horror fiction, sometimes referred to as the "Polish Poe." His stories, particularly those centered around trains, are renowned for their chilling atmosphere and psychological intensity. Grabiński masterfully explored the liminal spaces between reality and the supernatural, leaving a distinctive mark on the horror genre.

    Stefan Grabiński
    Das Abstellgleis und andere Erzählungen.
    Der Schatten des Satans. Phantastischer Roman.
    Salamandra
    Dunst und andere unheimliche Geschichten. Nachw. v. Marek Wydmuch
    Das graue Zimmer
    The Dark Domain
    • 2014

      The Dark Domain

      • 153 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      4.2(108)Add rating

      '...reading The Dark Domain by Stephan Grabinski is such a revelatory experience. Because here is a writer for whom supernatural horror is manifest precisely in modernity - in electricity, fire-stations, trains: the uncanny as the bad conscience of today. Sometimes Grabinski is known as the Polish Poe but this is misleading. Where Poe's horror is agonised, a kind of extended shriek, Grabinski's is cerebral, investigative. His protagonists are tortured and aghast, but not because they suffer at the caprice of Lovecraftian blind idiot gods: Grabinski's universe is strange and its principles are perhaps not what we expect, but they are principles - rules- and it is in their exploration that the mystery lies. This is horror as rigour.' China Mieville in The Guardia

      The Dark Domain