<p><em>Histoires t&eacute;n&eacute;breuses</em> by Victor Joly, here translated as <em>The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales</em>, was first published in Brussels by Auguste Schnee ' Co. in 1857. It collects three novellas and a short story, all affiliated, albeit a trifle belatedly and more than a little ironically, to the Romantic Movements of France and Germany, fusing the two influences in a fashion that only a Belgian writer was likely to attempt, and thus producing a hybrid whose distinctiveness is particularly obvious in the first two stories in the collection, each of which makes a significant contribution to the rich tradition of Romantic satanic fantasies.</p>