Smarra

“Smarra” by Charles Nodier

A gruesome tale in the Fantastic genre, “Smarra” plunges the reader into the mind of a man trapped in someone else’s nightmare. The demon Smarra, controlled by a sorceress named Méroé, is a kind of proto-vampire who rips out the hearts of sleeping men and devours them.

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(English) Nodier, Charles. “Smarra.” Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Joan Kessler. U Chicago P, 1995.

(French) Nodier, Charles. “Smarra.” Smarra, Trilby et autres contes. [Smarra, Trilby and Other Tales]. Ed. Jean-Luc Steinmetz. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1980. 69-134.