"Bio by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert: Charles Nodier (1780–1844) was the literary ""pilot of French Romanticism."" Director of the Arsenal Library and grand panjandrum of an epochal Parisian salon, he was a prominent cultural arbiter of the post-Napoleonic period. A multi-faceted author, Nodier is best remembered for his elaborate fantasies Luck of the Bean-Rows; Trilby; and Smarra, or The Demons of the Night. Nodier's Infernaliana or Anecdotes, Histories, Tales and Accounts Concerning Revenants, Spectres, Vampires and Demons, a catalog of clichés of the supernatural, the spectral, and the chthonic which Nodier helped to make fashionable during Romanticism's heyday, is the source from which The Bloody Nun [read it on 50 Watts] has been drawn, to be presented here for the first time in English translation. In English: —Smarra & Trilby from Dedalus—History Of The Secret Societies Of The Army (I can't vouch for the quality of this print-on-demand edition - the translation is likely ancient) —a biography in English"
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