Now available for the first time in English, this collection of gothic fantasies, anecdotes, and tales of ghosts, phantoms, demons, and vampires by was previously only available in the original French. Originally published in Paris in 1822, Infernaliana was written by the famed Charles Nodier, who is credited with starting the vampire craze in Paris with his wildly popular play "The Vampire", and his other collections of popular tales, first-person anecdotes, supernatural travel narratives, and gothic novellas. Infernaliana gives a compelling and multifaceted vision of how nineteenth-century Parisian society viewed the supernatural tales of their past and present, from the sheer variety of infernal combatants, the role of religion and skepticism in these tales, and the vividness of Nodier's vision of the infernaliana (as one would have called a collection of things pertaining to Hell in the naming conventions of the time). Nodier's collections combined ostensibly factual articles, brief anecdotes and narrative accounts, longer novellas, and written accounts of regional stories about specific infestations of ghosts and demons. These tales are diverse, some short and some long, some unlikely to stir the blood of a postmodern reader, others apt to produce more wide-eyed shock than one might have expected on reading a nineteenth-century text. The author gives no indication as to what lies around each new corner; the reader may wander through these accounts as through the doors of the chateaux which figure so largely in so many of these tales, not knowing whether the door they have opened will lead into a small and curious rooms in which one lingers only briefly, or into vast, dark, and labyrinthine gardens and forests in which one sees strange beauties… And hears the sound of demonic hissing from the hedges.