German Translation Exercise: When They Rise From Their Graves by A.F. Morland

Another chapter from another German pulp horror novel, translated into English.

Of all the pulpy stuff I’ve done so far, this one was certainly the most well written. The author clearly knows how to ratchet up tension in a way that I hope I’ve preserved in this text. This novel is the first of the wider Tony Ballard series of ghost stories. According to a few dubious sources, this was the brainchild of Freidrich Tenkrat, who wrote …