When Marie is gifted a nutcracker on Christmas Eve, the last thing she expects is for it to come alive. When she wakes to find a very mobile nutcracker engaged in a battle between...

The Sand-man and Other Stories brings together some of E.T.A. Hoffmann's most influential tales, where the fantastic and the uncanny intersect with psychological depth. The...

Automata and Other Stories (including Automata, The Deserted House, The Cremona Violin, etc.), by E.T.A. Hoffmann, is a collection of tales where the fantastic, the mechanical,...

E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 fairytale masterpiece The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King, which served as the basis for the famous and beloved holiday-season ballet The Nutcracker,...