Smarra, or The Demons of the Night  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Smarra, or The Demons of the Night, Charles Nodier's 1821 tale of nightmare, vampirism, and compulsion, acclaimed as the first work in French literature to explore in depth the realm of dream and the unconscious.

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Kessler, Joan C., editor Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France. ISBN 0226432084

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