Author:Johann August Apel

Johann August Apel
(1771–1816)

Johann August Apel

Works

Collections

• Cicaden ('Cicadas') (1810–1811)
• Gespensterbuch ('Book of Ghosts') (1810–1815) with Friedrich August Schulze
• Wunderbuch ('Book of Miracles') volumes 1–2 (1815–1816) with Friedrich August Schulze

Short stories

• "Die Bilder der Ahnen" ('The Paintings of the Ancestors') collected in Malven (1805), Cicaden (volume 1, 1810), and Fantasmagoriana (volume 1, 1812)
• "Der Freischütz" ('The Freeshooter') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 1, 1810)
• "Die Bräutigamsvorschau" ('The Bridegroom Preview') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 2, 1811)
• "Die schwarze Kammer" ('The Black Chamber') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 2, 1811) and Fantasmagoriana (volume 2, 1812)
• "Der Brautschmuck" ('The Bridal Jewelry') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 2, 1811)
• "Klara Mongomery" ('Clara Montgomery') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 3, 1811)
• "Der Geisterruf" ('The Ghost Call') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 3, 1811)
• "Der Todtentanz" ('The Dance of the Dead') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 3, 1811)
• "Zwei Neujahrsnächte" ('Two New Year's Nights') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 4, 1811)
• "Das silberne Fräulein" ('The Silver Maiden') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 5, 1815) and Wunderbuch (volume 1, 1815)
• "Der Schutzgeist" ('The Guardian Spirit') collected in Wunderbuch (volume 2, 1816)

Poems

• "Empusa-Lamia: Griechische Sage" ('Empusa-Lamia: Greek Legend') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 2, 1811)
• "Alp" ('Alp') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 2, 1811)
• "Der Rabe: Griechisches Märchen" ('The Raven: Greek Tale') collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 2, 1811)

Letters

• Letter to Christian Gottfried Schütz, 31 August 1802 (external scan)

As translator

• "König Pfau" ('King Peacock') by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, collected in Gespensterbuch (volume 1, 1810)

Works attributed to Apel

• "Death Tokens" translated by W. S. (1825), actually by Friedrich August Schulze
• "The Boarwolf" by Robert Pearse Gillies (1826), no German original has been identified

Works about Apel

• "Greek Rhythm and Metres—Boechkh, Apel, Hermann, Porson, Blomfield, &c." in The Foreign Quarterly Review (1839) (external scan)