His best-known novel was Der Golem (1915 translated by M. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, and Franz Kafka. Many of his writings have themes of fantasy or occultism, with echoes of E. In 1903 he published his first collection of short stories. Meyrink translated Nature's Finer Forces by Rama Prasad, one of the first works to introduce tantra to a popular audience in the West. By 1891 he joined the Theosophical Lodge of the Blue Star, whose members practiced various occult disciplines. As a young man Meyrink worked in the bank, but he was attracted to occult teachings. Meyrink was born Jin Vienna but was later taken by his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where his moth-er's family owned a bank. He was also actively concerned with occult and theosophical groups in Europe before and during World War I. Pseudonym of German novelist Gustav Meyer, famous for his occult fiction.
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