Nosferatu

Jim Shepard

first published 1998 University of Nebraska Press, 2005 215 pages

In the history of cinema, this novel's protagonist and subject ranks as a founding father, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu. But here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns, tragically, against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. What shadows Shepard's Murnau - through the airfields of the Great War to cafes and clubs in Berlin in the twenties, and to the virtual invention of filmm...

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Nosferatu edition · 2005 · University of Nebraska Press · 215 pages · 9780803293465
Nosferatu hardcover · 1999 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780517412190
Nosferatu edition · 1998 · Alfred A. Knopf · 215 pages

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