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"A beautifully atmospheric tale occur the previous Prague ghetto offering The Golem, a type of rabbinical Frankenstein's creature, which exhibits iitself each 33 years in an area with no home. Stranger still, it appears to truly have the same experience whilst the narrator. Converted to a movie in 1920, this remarkable guide includes uncanny mindset of doppelganger tales with expressionism and greater than a little melodrama, Meyrink's aged Prague - like Dicken's London - is among the wonderful masterpieces of Town publishing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where something sometimes happens." -- Phil Baker in The Sunday Times