1-8. are from Meyrink’s collection Fledermäuse (Bats), first published in 1916; the one story from Fledermäuse that has been omitted here is ‘Meister Leonhard’ which was published as ‘The Master’ in The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy 1890-2000.
9. ‘The Clockmaker’ was first published in Simplicissimus, vol. XXXI no. 1, 1926.
10. ‘The City with the Secret Heartbeat’ was first published in Die Gartenlaube, no. 44, 1928.
11. ‘The Pilot’ was unpublished in Meyrink’s lifetime; it first appeared in Mensch und Schicksal, vol. VI, no. 18, 1. 12. 1952.
12. ‘The Transformation of the Blood’ was unpublished in Meyrink’s lifetime; it first appeared in Fledermäuse, ed. Eduard Frank, Munich, 1981; some of the incidents it contains appear in shorter articles Meyrink published (e.g. ‘Magie im Tiefschlaf’, 1928); it is not clear exactly when it was written, but internal evidence suggests 1927 or 1928.
13. The Alchemist’s House was unpublished in Meyrink’s lifetime. The manuscript (now in the Bavarian State Library) was collated by Meyrink’s grandson, Julius Gustav Böhler, and first appeared in Das Haus zur letzten Lantern, ed. Eduard Frank, Munich, 1973, which also contains ‘The Clockmaker’, ‘The City with the Secret Heartbeat’ and ‘The Pilot’.
14. The Golem, tr. Mike Mitchell, Dedalus, 1995; pp. 103-113.
15. The Green Face, tr. Mike Mitchell, Dedalus, 1992; pp. 209-216.
16. Walpurgisnacht, tr. Mike Mitchell, Dedalus, 1993; pp. 46-69.
17. The White Dominican, tr. Mike Mitchell, Dedalus, 1994; pp. 36-47.
18.The Angel of the West Window, tr. Mike Mitchell, 1991; pp. 55-71, 82-94.
19-22. From: The Opal (and other stories), tr. and intro. Maurice Raraty, Dedalus, 1994.
23. Mike Mitchell: Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink, Dedalus, 2008; pp. 77-86.