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The Fatal Marksman (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Johann August Apel
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JOHANN AUGUST APEL
Johann August Apel was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1771. He worked as a lawyer and librarian in his hometown for most of his life, and was a keen writer of both classical and speculative fiction. Between 1810 and 1817, in partnership with fellow author F. A. Schulze, he published a large anthology of ghost stories called Das Gespensterbuch (The Ghost Book). This collection included one of his better-known tales, ‘The Fatal Marksman’. It also contained ‘Die Jägerbraut’ (‘The Bride Hunter’), which formed the basis for the libretto of Der Freischütz (The Freeshooter), widely regarded as the first important German Romantic opera. Apel died in Leipzig in 1816, aged 44.
The Fatal Marksman
Johann August Apel
(1771-1816)
‘Listen, dame,’ said Bertram, the old forester of Linden to his wife, ‘once for all, listen: it’s not many things that I would deny to thy asking; but for this notion, Anne, drive it out of thy head – root and branch, the sooner the better; and never encourage the lass to think more about it. When she knows the worst, she submits; and all goes right. I see no good that comes of standing shilly shally, and letting the girl nurse herself with hopes of what must not be.’
‘But, Bertram, dear Bertram,’ replied old Anne, ‘why not? could not our Kate live as happily with the bailiff’s clerk as with the hunter Robert? Ah! you don’t know what a fine lad William is; so good, so kind-hearted –’
‘Like enough,’ interrupted Bertram; ‘kind-hearted, I dare say, but no hunter for all that. Now look here, Anne: for better than two hundred years has this farm in the forest of Linden come down from father to child in my family. Hadst thou brought me a son, well and good; the farm would have gone to him; and the lass might have married whom she would. But, as the case stands, – no, I say. It’s not altogether Robert that I care about. I don’t stand upon trifles; and, if the man is not to your or the girl’s, why not look out any other active huntsman that may take my office betimes, and give us a comfortable fireside in our old-age: Robert, or not Robert, so that it be a lad of the forest.’
For the clerk’s sake old Anne would have ventured to wheedle her husband a little longer: but the forester, who knew by experience the efficacy of female eloquence, was resolved not to expose his own firmness of purpose to any further assaults or trials; and