....Și la sfârșit a mai rămas coșmarul

First read. Sep 2011.

A practical (and theoretical!) guide on how to write a professional Romanian gothic horror. Influenced perhaps by Poe, M. Shelley and Walpole (and even De Sade) and containing a strong epic doom and gothic metal subcurrent (MDB, Theater of Tragedy, Lacrimas Profundere and even HIM [!]), a good knowledge of magick and esoteric practices (a bit of Meyrink also), Craznic's novel deserves to be translated in English, its witty and dark effects on the readers being mesmerizing. I would have published the postface as an article, leaving the story untouched. Still the postface is useful: consider only Poe's “Raven” and his “Philosophy of Composition”. I'm looking forward with excitment to reading Craznic's future novels.

Second read. Feb 2014.