About this book
Grüne Gesicht by Gustav Meyrink throws listeners into a nightmare-tinged fable where occult mystery, surreal characters, and apocalyptic visions collide. Told through the bewildered eyes of Hauberrisser and an unwillingly entangled lover, this dark fiction weaves thefts, murders, and eccentric figures into a widening spiral of mysticism and fantasy.
Set against the early 20th-century European occult and Expressionist milieu that shaped Meyrink’s work, the story repeatedly summons the figure of the Eternal Jew—here named Cidher Grün—whose haunting visions recur like a dark refrain. As ordinary reality buckles, the novel explores themes of spiritual blindness and inner transformation, the struggle to confront death, and the search for illumination amid a world that seems poised on the brink of apocalypse. Meyrink’s prose blends atmospheric horror and ghost-story elements with metaphysical allegory, producing an eerie, dreamlike experience rather than straightforward scares.
Ideal for listeners who favor literary horror, occult fiction, and psychological Gothic tales, this audiobook rewards anyone drawn to surreal, thought-provoking ghost stories and the uncanny legacy of early modernist mysticism.
