Friedrich Schiller’s unfinished story “The Spiritual Seer.” The second half of the 18th century is not only the grace of the Enlightenment, it is the era of gloomy secret societies, orders of dubious Egyptian origin, frenzied belief in the inevitable horrors of the afterlife. “I enthusiastically read a book that, like everyone who at that time was at least somewhat devoted to romanticism carried it in their pocket. It was Schiller’s “Spirit Seer.” This is how E. T. Hoffmann recalls. The famous master of black fiction, Hans Heinz Evers (1871–1943), risked continuing and finishing The Spiritualist. This writer sharply intensified the cruel hopelessness of the story. Deceptions, revelations, unquenchable jealousy, a nightmare of unrequited love. And above all this are the infernal grimaces of the afterlife initiators of our disastrous passions and no less disastrous illusions.