Der Sandmann
by E.T.A. Hoffmann
German • Public Domain • Free to stream
E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (1816) is one of the most unsettling and influential stories ever written — a cornerstone of German Romanticism and Gothic literature. Young Nathanael is haunted by childhood terror of the Sandman, a demon who steals children's eyes. As an adult, his obsession with the mysterious figure Coppelius and a strange mechanical doll Olimpia pushes him toward madness. Freud himself analysed this story in his famous essay on "The Uncanny". Gripping, dark, and psychologically devastating. Stream free in German.
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Der Sandmann was written by E.T.A. Hoffmann, first published in 1816 as part of Nachtstucke.
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