Eerie Tales
About Eerie Tales
After hours in a bookshop, Death, the Devil, and the ghost of a prostitute take five stories off the shelves and play the parts. The episodes are The Apparition, from Anselm Heine; The Hand, from Robert Liebmann; The Black Cat, from Poe; The Suicide Club, from Stevenson; and Der Spuk, written by Richard Oswald.
Cast & crew
More about Eerie Tales
Richard Oswald directed and produced the German anthology. Carl Hoffmann photographed it. The original German title is Unheimliche Geschichten. It was also released as Grausige Nächte. English titles include Weird Tales, Five Sinister Stories, and Tales of the Uncanny.
Themes
Look
Carl Hoffmann photographed the five episodes.
Preservation
The original negative is considered lost. A restoration from a Cinémathèque française nitrate print has been released.
Notes
- Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel, and Anita Berber play the figures who act out the stories.
- The original negative is considered lost. A restoration was made from a nitrate print at the Cinémathèque française.
- Oswald directed a remake under the same German title in 1932.
- Hugo Döblin, Paul Morgan, and Georg John are in the catalog cast.
Scenes
- Death, the Devil, and the ghost settle in the closed bookshop and start reading.
- The same three actors reappear as the leads of each story.
Influenced by
- The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
- The Suicide Club (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- a story by Anselm Heine
- a story by Robert Liebmann
Influenced
- Unheimliche Geschichten (1932)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-eerie-tales)
