Ewers's prose can be placed on a par with the prose of Meyrink and Lovecraft. Evers' novel Alraune was highly regarded by Borges, and the Internet today is full of references to this novel. The child of a prostitute and an executed criminal (that's not a disclaimer!), Alraune is the fruit of a scientific experiment. “The Story of a Living Creature” is the subtitle of the novel. And the main character, on whose behalf the story is told, is a man who all his life “walked near life - past it...”