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Actually, no, I hadn't got to that one yet! ;) Finnish Fantasy is another one I've still to read - a particularly glaring omission, as I have family in Finland. Thanks for the tips! Interesting to see from the website that Flemish Fantasy is finally out - been waiting for that one for a long time. Hubert Lampo!

I can also recommend 'French Horror', mentioned upthread, which left me hungering for more of the Frenetique school and Petrus 'Lycanthrope' Borel in particular, a writer barely translated in English and long out-of-print. That's the only problem with these collections - they leave you wanting more of texts that just can't be had.

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There is also a book of Fantasy and Science Fiction of Dutch and Flemish writers, "New Worlds From the Lowlands". Edited by Manuel Van Loggem, with a preface by Isaac Asimov. 1982. Pages 73 to 81, contain a story by Lampo, "Mr. Davidson's Son". I bought the book a long time ago but didn't read it. I can also recommend another book: "The Belgian School of the Bizarre", translated by Kim Connell. 1998. The book has 16 short stories. I read it and it's interesting literature. Flemish fiction is hard to find, but there are a few more books around.

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Yes, Dedalus is one of the best out there.
I've been eagerly awaiting the forthcoming "Dedalus Meyrink Reader" for some time now- hoping it will finally come out this Fall. More deeply appreciated work from Mike Mitchell and Dedalus.
This volume is supposed to feature some non-fiction as well as more short stories. I for one can't get enough of Meyrink's short fiction, which really formed my (very high) opinion of him- shame to say I still haven't read The Golem, but I have read and re-read everything in the collection "The Opal" and tracked down a few other stray shorts in anthologies.

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Without for a moment wishing to run down Meyrink's short fiction, if you've enjoyed that, the novels will blow your mind.

If you can afford the Tartarus edition of Der Golem, it's a fabulous book which includes all the Hugo Steiner-Prag illustrations from the original edition, and then some! They add as much to the feel of the story as Peake's illustrations do to Titus Groan. If not, the Dedalus edition uses the same Mitchell translation.

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I really adore Dedalus' literary standards, but I think the inside layout of their books tends to be rather on the ugly and less reader-friendly side. Still, that too has improved over the years. And still, for me as a reader, when a book is published by Dedalus it usually means that the text(s) included are of the highest calibre.