According to Prague-German author Paul Leppin (1878-1945), the streets of his home city “led one astray and ill fortune lurked on the thresholds.” This is certainly the impression you get from probably his best work, the “Prague Ghost Story” of 1914, in which the author lures us into a labyrinth of darkness and lasciviousness. Driven through the streets by a thirst for passion and excess, the hero Severin becomes a victim of his own sensuality...