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Did you know that Christ was born in Flanders? That churches and theatres come to life after the spectators and the faithful have left? that you can fish for your soul in the Scheldt? A devouring painting, statues that seem to come to life, a saraband of spectres, disturbing coincidences, hallucinatory visions, deaths that are as tragic as they are enigmatic: in Verhaeren's short stories, the Flemish landscapes are shrouded in an aura of mystery, and the Spanish cities are full of dramas that arouse anguish.With the exception of the three Midnight Tales, these short stories had not been collected in a volume during the author's lifetime; this edition brings back into circulation several texts that had been forgotten for over a century.