Books with title The Music of Erich Zann

It has always been the prerogative of genius to batter on the portals of the Unknowable—and then thrust his soul into the crack, like the little Dutch boy, to keep the devil out. The Satanic legends surrounding the unbelievable career of the great concertist, Paganini, leave little doubt that somewhere there is a window such as Erich Zann's, beyond which lies a world more terrible than imagination can grasp, where science dwindles to zero and incredible passions rage as winds in a vacuum.... Where? Why, on the Rue d'Auseil—which no one visits twice....

It has always been the prerogative of genius to batter on the portals of the Unknowable—and then thrust his soul into the crack, like the little Dutch boy, to keep the devil out. The Satanic legends surrounding the unbelievable career of the great concertist, Paganini, leave little doubt that somewhere there is a window such as Erich Zann's, beyond which lies a world more terrible than imagination can grasp, where science dwindles to zero and incredible passions rage as winds in a vacuum.... Where? Why, on the Rue d'Auseil—which no one visits twice....--intro.